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A note on the vertizontal curvature of fat bundles

Differential Geometry 2024-01-08 v3

Abstract

In his unpublished notes on fat bundles, W. Ziller poses a compelling question: given a fat principal GG-bundle (P,g)(B,h)(P, g) \rightarrow (B, h) with dimG=3\dim G = 3, and gg representing a Riemannian submersion metric ensuring that the GG-orbits are totally geodesic, can one modify hh to render all vertical curvatures equal to 11? 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