On non-negatively curved metrics on open five-dimensional manifolds

DOI10.1007/S10455-006-9044-6zbMATH Open1112.53021arXivmath/0502325OpenAlexW2116586744WikidataQ124880352 ScholiaQ124880352MaRDI QIDQ873926FDOQ873926

Authors: Mikael Bengtsson, Valery Borisovich Marenich 

Publication date: 20 March 2007

Published in: Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $V^n$ be an open manifold of non-negative sectional curvature with a soul $Sigma$ of co-dimension two. The universal cover $ildeN$ of the unit normal bundle $N$ of the soul in such a manifold is isometric to the direct product $M^{n-2}imesR$. In the study of the metric structure of $V^n$ an important role plays the vector field $X$ which belongs to the projection of the vertical planes distribution of the Riemannian submersion $pi:VoSigma$ on the factor $M$ in this metric splitting $ildeN=MimesR$. The case $n=4$ was considered in [GT] where the authors prove that $X$ is a Killing vector field while the manifold $V^4$ is isometric to the quotient of $M^{2}imes(R^2,g_F)imesR$ by the flow along the corresponding Killing field. Following an approach of [GT] we consider the next case $n=5$ and obtain the same result under the assumption that the set of zeros of $X$ is not empty. Under this assumption we prove that both $M^3$ and $Sigm{a}^3$ admit an open-book decomposition with a bending which is a closed geodesic and pages which are totally geodesic two-spheres, the vector field $X$ is Killing, while the whole manifold $V^5$ is isometric to the quotient of $M^{3}imes(R^2,g_F)imesR$ by the flow along corresponding Killing field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0502325

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zbMATH Keywords

non-negative curvatureopen manifoldssoulopen-book decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

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Cited In (2)

• Existence of Riemannian metrics with positive biorthogonal curvature on simply connected 5-manifolds
• Topology of nonnegative curvature foliations on five-dimensional manifold. II.

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