Symmetries of Eschenburg spaces and the Chern problem

DOI10.4310/AJM.2006.V10.N3.A6zbMATH Open1116.53023arXivmath/0605079OpenAlexW2003987071MaRDI QIDQ863784FDOQ863784

Authors: Karsten Grove, Krishnan Shankar, Wolfgang Ziller 

Publication date: 1 February 2007

Published in: The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The known manifolds of positive sectional curvature are either homogeneous spaces or biquotients, i.e. quotients of a compact Lie group by a group acting on the left and right simultaneously. The full isometry group of the homogeneous metrics of positive curvature were determined by K.Shankar. Here we determine the isometry group of some of the biquotients due to Eschenburg and Bazaikin. As an application we obtain, as in the homogeneous case, more counterexamples to the Chern conjecture, which states that an abelian subgroup of the fundamental group of a positively curved manifold is cyclic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605079

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zbMATH Keywords

isometry groupsChern conjectureBazaikin spacesbi-quotientsbiquotient manifoldEschenburg spacesPositive curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15)

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