Examples of flag-wise positively curved spaces
Abstract
A Finsler space is called flag-wise positively curved, if for any and any tangent plane , we can find a nonzero vector , such that the flag curvature . 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 such that its Lie algebra is compact non-Abelian and 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 is a compact simply connected coset space, and admit flag-wise positively curved Finsler metrics. This provides abundant examples for this type of metrics, which are not homogeneous in general.
Keywords
Cite
@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