The classification and curvature of biquotients of the form Sp(3)//Sp(1)^2

DOI10.1007/S10455-014-9430-4MaRDI QIDQ477368zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jason Devito, Robert III DeYeso, Philip Wesner, Michael G. Ruddy

Publication date 3 December 2014

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1639

zbMATH Keywords

biquotientsLie groupsquasi-positive curvaturequaternions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25) Homology and cohomology of homogeneous spaces of Lie groups (57T15)

Abstract: We show there are precisely 15 inhomogeneous biquotients of the form $Sp(3)//Sp(1{)}^2$ and show that at least 8 of them admit metrics of quasi-positive curvature.

Review text

The authors classify the effectively free biquotient actions of \(\mathrm{Sp}(1)\times \mathrm{Sp}(1)\) on \(\mathrm{Sp}(3)\), showing there are precisely 4 homogeneous and 15 inhomogeneous actions up to equivalence. They prove by means of the 8-th cohomology groups and 1-st Pontryagin classes that the 15 inhomogeneous actions give rise to manifolds which are distinct up to diffeomorphism. They also construct metrics of quasi-positive curvature on 8 of the 15 quotients, that is, metrics of nonnegative curvature possessing a point at which all sectional curvatures are positive. The 4 homogeneous examples have been studied in [\textit{M. M. Kerr} and \textit{K. Tapp}, Differ. Geom. Appl. 34, 63--79 (2014; Zbl 1296.53105)].

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