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A note on the Petersen-Wilhelm conjecture

Differential Geometry 2017-06-02 v1

Abstract

In this note we consider submersions from compact manifolds, homotopy equivalent to the Eschenburg or Bazaikin spaces of positive curvature. We show that if the submersion is nontrivial, the dimension of the base is greater than the dimension of the fiber. Together with previous results, this proves the Petersen-Wilhelm Conjecture for all the known compact manifolds with positive curvature.

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@article{arxiv.1706.00366,
  title  = {A note on the Petersen-Wilhelm conjecture},
  author = {David González-Álvaro and Marco Radeschi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.00366},
  year   = {2017}
}

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11 pages

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