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Examples of flag-wise positively curved spaces

Differential Geometry 2016-06-09 v2

Abstract

A Finsler space (M,F)(M,F) is called flag-wise positively curved, if for any xMx\in M and any tangent plane PTxM\mathbf{P}\subset T_xM, we can find a nonzero vector yPy\in \mathbf{P}, such that the flag curvature KF(x,y,P)>0K^F(x,y, \mathbf{P})>0. Though compact positively curved spaces are very rare in both Riemannian and Finsler geometry, flag-wise positively curved metrics should be easy to be found. A generic Finslerian perturbation for a non-negatively curved homogeneous metric may have a big chance to produce flag-wise positively curved metrics. This observation leads our discovery of these metrics on many compact manifolds. First we prove any Lie group GG such that its Lie algebra g\mathfrak{g} is compact non-Abelian and dimc(g)1\dim\mathfrak{c}(\mathfrak{g})\leq 1 admits flag-wise positively curved left invariant Finsler metrics. Similar techniques can be applied to our exploration for more general compact coset spaces. We will prove, whenever G/HG/H is a compact simply connected coset space, G/HG/H and S1×G/HS^1\times G/H admit flag-wise positively curved Finsler metrics. This provides abundant examples for this type of metrics, which are not homogeneous in general.

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@article{arxiv.1606.01731,
  title  = {Examples of flag-wise positively curved spaces},
  author = {Ming Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.01731},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

9 pages. In the newest version, Theorem 1.3 is strenghened to provide many more examples