Sphere bundles with 1/4-pinched fiberwise metrics

DOI10.1090/TRAN/6993MaRDI QIDQ5267986zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhou Gang, Dan Knopf, Pedro Ontaneda, F. Thomas Farrell

Publication date 14 June 2017

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03773

zbMATH Keywords

sphere bundlenegatively curved manifoldspace of metrics\(1/4\)-pinched fiberwise metric\(M\)-bundleself-diffeomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: We prove that all smooth sphere bundles that admit fiberwise 1/4-pinched metrics are induced bundles of vector bundles, so their structure groups reduce from the diffeomorphism group of the sphere to the orthogonal group. This result implies the existence of many smooth n-sphere bundles over a k-sphere that do not support strictly 1/4-pinched positively curved Riemannian metrics on their fibers.

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