Moduli spaces of nonnegative sectional curvature and non-unique souls

DOI10.4310/JDG/1324476751zbMATH Open1242.53035arXiv0912.4869OpenAlexW2963716286WikidataQ115170633 ScholiaQ115170633MaRDI QIDQ410090FDOQ410090

Slawomir Kwasik, Igor Belegradek, Reinhard Schultz

Publication date: 17 April 2012

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We apply various topological methods to distinguish connected components of moduli spaces of complete Riemannian metrics of nonnegative sectional curvature on open manifolds. The new geometric ingredient is that souls of nearby nonnegatively curved metrics are ambiently isotopic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.4869

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zbMATH Keywords

vector bundlesopen manifoldsmoduli spaces of Riemannian metricsnonnegative sectional curvaturesoul

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17)

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