Sphere bundles with 1/4-pinched fiberwise metrics

DOI10.1090/TRAN/6993zbMATH Open1369.57032arXiv1505.03773OpenAlexW2964041968MaRDI QIDQ5267986FDOQ5267986

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

Publication date: 14 June 2017

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

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.

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)

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• Ricci flow and diffeomorphism groups of 3-manifolds
• Microbundles, manifolds and metrisability
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• On the non-degenerate and degenerate generic singularities formed by mean curvature flow
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