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Examples of Riemannian manifolds with positive curvature almost everywhere

Differential Geometry 2014-11-11 v1

Abstract

We show that the unit tangent bundle of S^4 and a real cohomology CP^3 admit Riemannian metrics with positive sectional curvature almost everywhere. These are the only examples so far with positive curvature almost everywhere that are not also known to admit positive curvature.

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@article{arxiv.math/9910187,
  title  = {Examples of Riemannian manifolds with positive curvature almost everywhere},
  author = {Peter Petersen and Frederick Wilhelm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9910187},
  year   = {2014}
}

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37 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol3/paper14.abs.html