Rigidity for odd-dimensional souls

DOI10.2140/GT.2012.16.957MaRDI QIDQ441108zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kristopher Tapp

Publication date 20 August 2012

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.5150

zbMATH Keywords

flatnonnegative curvaturesoul

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: We prove a new rigidity result for an open manifold M with nonnegative sectional curvature whose soul S is odd-dimensional. Specifically, there exists a geodesic in S and a parallel vertical plane field along it with constant vertical curvature and vanishing normal curvature. Under the added assumption that the Sharafutdinov fibers are rotationally symmetric, this implies that for small r, the distance sphere of radius r about S contains an immersed flat cylinder, and thus could not have positive curvature.

Review text

The author proves a new rigidity result for an open manifold M with nonnegative sectional curvature whose soul \(\Sigma \subset M\) is odd-dimensional. Specifically, there exist a geodesic in \(\Sigma \) and a parallel vertical plane field along it with constant vertical curvature and vanishing normal curvature. Under the additional assumption that the Sharafutdinov fibers are rotationally symmetric, this implies that for small \(r\), the distance sphere \(B_r(\Sigma ) = \{p \in M\mid \text{dist}(p,\Sigma ) = r\}\) contains an immersed flat cylinder, and thus could not have positive curvature.

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• -flat manifolds and Riemannian submersions
• Conditions for nonnegative curvature on vector bundles and sphere bundles.
• Manifolds with positive sectional curvature almost everywhere.
• On the structure of complete manifolds of nonnegative curvature
• Quasi-positive curvature on homogeneous bundles
• The metric projection onto the soul

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• Riemannian submersions from compact four manifolds

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