A note on the vertizontal curvature of fat bundles
Abstract
In his unpublished notes on fat bundles, W. Ziller poses a compelling question: given a fat principal -bundle with , and representing a Riemannian submersion metric ensuring that the -orbits are totally geodesic, can one modify to render all vertical curvatures equal to ? In this note, we establish a rigidity result for fat Riemannian foliations with bounded holonomy and a specific curvature constraint. Our result addresses Ziller's question for fat fiber bundles with compact structure groups, considering connected compact total spaces under a curvature constraint that holds on various examples, such as locally symmetric spaces. Additionally, we assume that all vertizontal curvatures coincide at a point.
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@article{arxiv.2207.10757,
title = {A note on the vertizontal curvature of fat bundles},
author = {Leonardo F. Cavenaghi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.10757},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
This is the final version of this note. We have enhanced the writing and re-checked the exposition. Two corollaries were added. The results are complementary to the ones in the paper arXiv:2212.08154. Six pages