A warped product version of the Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem

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DOI10.1090/TRAN/7003zbMATH Open1368.53031arXiv1506.03800OpenAlexW2963981122WikidataQ125622329 ScholiaQ125622329MaRDI QIDQ5267988FDOQ5267988

William Wylie

Publication date: 14 June 2017

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

Abstract: We prove a new generalization of the Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem where we obtain a warped product splitting under the existence of a line. The curvature condition in our splitting is a curvature dimension inequality of the form CD(0,1). Even though we have to allow warping in our splitting, we are able to recover topological applications. In particular, for a smooth compact Riemannian manifold admitting a density which is CD(0,1), we show that the fundamental group of M is the fundamental group of a compact manifold with nonnegative sectional curvature. If the space is also locally homogeneous, we obtain that the space also admits a metric of non-negative sectional curvature. Both of these obstructions give many examples of Riemannian metrics which do not admit any smooth density which is CD(0,1).


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03800




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