Classification of compact manifolds with positive isotropic curvature
Differential Geometry
2025-11-18 v8
Abstract
We show the following result: Let be a compact manifold of dimension with positive isotropic curvature. Then is diffeomorphic to a spherical space form, or a quotient manifold of by a cocompact discrete subgroup of the isometry group of the round cylinder , or a connected sum of a finite number of such manifolds. This extends previous works of Brendle and Chen-Tang-Zhu, and improves a work of Huang. The proof uses Ricci flow with surgery on compact orbifolds, with the help of the ambient isotopy uniqueness of closed tubular neighborhoods of compact embedded full suborbifolds.
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@article{arxiv.2305.18154,
title = {Classification of compact manifolds with positive isotropic curvature},
author = {Hong Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.18154},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
22 pages, added the definition of normal bundles of embedded full suborbifolds