We construct a new 7-dimensional manifold with positive sectional curvature which is 2-connected with π_3=\Z_2 and admits an isometric group action with one dimensional quotient.
A Riemannian manifold is called almost positively curved if the set of points for which all $2$-planes have positive sectional curvature is open and dense. We find three new examples of almost positively curved manifolds: $Sp(3)/Sp(1)^2$, and two circle quotients of $Sp(3)/Sp(1)^2$. We also show the quasi-positively curved metric of Tapp [26]} on $Sp(n+1)/Sp(n-1) Sp(1)$ is not almost positively curved if $n\geq 3$.
We classify positively curved Alexandrov spaces of dimension 4 with an isometric circle action up to equivariant homeomorphism, subject to a certain additional condition on the infinitesimal geometry near fixed points which we conjecture is always satisfied. As a corollary, we also classify positively curved Riemannian orbifolds of dimension 4 with an isometric circle action.
We show that the shortest closed geodesic on a 2-sphere with non-negative curvature has length bounded above by three times the diameter. We prove a new isoperimetric inequality for 2-spheres with pinched curvature; this allows us to improve our bound on the length of the shortest closed geodesic in the pinched curvature setting.
In this article, we study complete Type I ancient Ricci flows with positive sectional curvature. Our main results are as follows: in the complete and noncompact case, all such ancient solutions must be noncollapsed on all scales; in the closed case, if the dimension is even, then all such ancient solutions must be noncollapsed on all scales. This furthermore gives a complete classification for three-dimensional noncompact Type I ancient solutions without assuming the noncollapsing condition.
We completely characterize the sectional curvature of all of the $13$-dimensional Bazaikin spaces. In particular, we show that all Bazaikin spaces admit a quasi-positively curved Riemannian metric, and that, up to isometry, there is a unique Bazaikin space which is almost positively curved but not positively curved.
A Ricci surface is defined as a Riemannian surface $(M,g_M)$ whose Gauss curvature satisfies the differential equation $KΔK + g_M(dK,dK) + 4K^3=0$. Andrei Moroianu and Sergiu Moroianu proved that a Ricci surface with non-positive Gauss curvature admits locally a minimal immersion into $\mathbb{R}^3$. In this paper, we are interested in studying non-compact orientable Ricci surfaces with catenoidal ends. We use an analogue of the Weierstrass data to obtain some classification results for such Ricci surfaces. We also give an existence result for positive genus Ricci surfaces with catenoidal ends…
In this paper, we prove two rigidity results for non-positively curved homogeneous Finsler metrics. Our first main result yields an extension of Hu-Deng's well-known result proven for the Randers metrics. Indeed, we prove that every connected homogeneous Finsler space with non-positive flag curvature and isotropic S-curvature is Riemannian or locally Minkowskian. We extend the Szabó's rigidity theorem for Berwald surfaces and show that homogeneous isotropic Berwald metrics with non-positive flag curvature are Riemannian or locally Minkowskian. We prove that a homogeneous $(α, β)$-metrics has i…
一个具有双不变正交分解$\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{h}+\mathfrak{m}$的紧致黎曼齐性空间$G/H$称为交换对正弯曲的,如果对于$\mathfrak{m}$中线性无关交换对所张成的$T_{eH}(G/H)$中的任意切面,截面曲率为零.本文证明了在陪集空间$\mathrm{Sp}(2)/\mathrm{U}(1)$上,$\mathrm{U}(1)$对应于一个短根,交换对允许正曲度量. B. Wilking最近证明了这个$\mathrm{Sp}(2)/\mathrm{U}(1)$不可能是一般意义上的正弯曲。这是第一个例子,以区分一组紧凑的陪集空间承认正弯曲的度量,和度量正弯曲的交换对。