Positive Complex Sectional Curvature, Ricci Flow and the Differential Sphere Theorem

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Authors Lei Ni, Jon G. Wolfson

Publication date 3 June 2007

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

Abstract: The paper provides a different proof of the result of Brendle-Schoen on the differential sphere theorem. It is shown directly that the invariant cone of curvature operators with positive (or non-negative) complex sectional curvature is preserved by the Ricci flow. This implies, by a result of B"ohm-Wilking, that the normalized Ricci flow deforms such a metric to a metric of constant positive curvature. Using earlier work of Yau and Zheng it can be shown that a metric with strictly (pointwise) 1/4-pinched sectional curvature has positive complex sectional curvature. This gives a direct proof of Brendle-Schoen's recent differential sphere theorem, bypassing any discussion of positive isotropic curvature.

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