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Flat Sections and Non-negative Curvature in Pullback Bundles

Differential Geometry 2013-04-17 v1

Abstract

We give a geometric obstruction to the non-negativity of the sectional curvature in the total spaces of certain Riemannian submersions with totally geodesic fibers; applications of this obstruction to several examples are given.

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@article{arxiv.1304.4532,
  title  = {Flat Sections and Non-negative Curvature in Pullback Bundles},
  author = {C. Durán and L. D. Sperança},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.4532},
  year   = {2013}
}

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14 pages

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