Nonconnected moduli spaces of nonnegative sectional curvature metrics on simply connected manifolds

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12095zbMATH Open1385.53022arXiv1601.04877OpenAlexW3123148434WikidataQ125975276 ScholiaQ125975276MaRDI QIDQ4604598FDOQ4604598

Authors: Anand Dessai, Stephan Klaus, Wilderich Tuschmann 

Publication date: 2 March 2018

Published in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that in each dimension $4n+3$, $nge1$, there exist infinite sequences of closed smooth simply connected manifolds $M$ of pairwise distinct homotopy type for which the moduli space of Riemannian metrics with nonnegative sectional curvature has infinitely many path components. Closed manifolds with these properties were known before only in dimension seven, and our result does also hold for moduli spaces of Riemannian metrics with positive Ricci curvature. Moreover, in conjunction with work of Belegradek, Kwasik and Schultz, we obtain that for each such $M$ the moduli space of complete nonnegative sectional curvature metrics on the open simply connected manifold $MimesmathbbR$ also has infinitely many components.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.04877

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zbMATH Keywords

space of Riemannian metricsgroup of diffeomorphismsnonnegative sectional curvatureKreck-Stolz s-invariantmoduli space of Riemannian metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

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