Free torus actions and twisted suspensions

arXiv2305.06068MaRDI QIDQ6436088FDOQ6436088

Philipp Reiser, Fernando Galaz-García

Publication date: 10 May 2023

Abstract: We express the total space of a principal circle bundle over a connected sum of two manifolds in terms of the total spaces of circle bundles over each summand, provided certain conditions hold. We then apply this result to provide sufficient conditions for the existence of free circle and torus actions on connected sums of products of spheres and obtain a topological classification of closed, simply-connected manifolds with a free cohomogeneity-four torus action. As a corollary, we obtain infinitely-many manifolds with Riemannian metrics of positive Ricci curvature and isometric torus actions.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Classification of fiber spaces or bundles in algebraic topology (55R15) Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15) Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

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