Curvature of the second kind and a conjecture of Nishikawa
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Abstract: In this paper, we investigate manifolds for which the curvature of the second kind (following the terminology of Nishikawa) satisfies certain positivity conditions. Our main result settles Nishikawa's conjecture that manifolds for which the curvature (operator) of the second kind are positive are diffeomorphic to a sphere, by showing that such manifolds satisfy Brendle's PIC1 condition. In dimension four we show that curvature of the second kind has a canonical normal form, and use this to classify Einstein four-manifolds for which the curvature (operator) of the second kind is five-non-negative. We also calculate the normal form for some explicit examples in order to show that this assumption is sharp.
The authors consider various conditions on curvature tensors of compact Riemannian manifolds related to Nishikawa's curvature of the second kind \[ \hat{R}(e_i\otimes e_j+e_j\otimes e_i) := R_{ik{\ell}j}(e_k\otimes e_{\ell}+e_{\ell}\otimes e_k). \] The main theorem is: Theorem. If the sum of the two smallest eigenvalues of \(\hat{R}\) is positive, then the manifold is diffeomorphic to a spherical space form. The authors also classify Einstein \(4\)-manifolds for which the sum of the five smallest eigenvalues of \(\hat{R}\) is positive. They relate these conditions to the condition found by \textit{S. Brendle} [Duke Math. J. 151, No. 1, 1--21 (2010; Zbl 1189.53042)] and to the analytical work of \textit{S. Brendle} and \textit{R. Schoen} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 22, No. 1, 287--307 (2009; Zbl 1251.53021)] on Ricci flows.
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