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Classification of compact manifolds with positive isotropic curvature

Differential Geometry 2025-11-18 v8

Abstract

We show the following result: Let (M,g0)(M,g_0) be a compact manifold of dimension n12n\geq 12 with positive isotropic curvature. Then MM is diffeomorphic to a spherical space form, or a quotient manifold of Sn1×R\mathbb{S}^{n-1}\times \mathbb{R} by a cocompact discrete subgroup of the isometry group of the round cylinder Sn1×R\mathbb{S}^{n-1}\times \mathbb{R}, 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