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Metrics of positive Ricci curvature on vector bundles over nilmanifolds

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We construct metrics of positive Ricci curvature on some vector bundles over tori (or more generally, over nilmanifolds). This gives rise to the first examples of manifolds with positive Ricci curvature which are homotopy equivalent but not homeomorphic to manifolds of nonnegative sectional curvature.

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@article{arxiv.math/0101106,
  title  = {Metrics of positive Ricci curvature on vector bundles over nilmanifolds},
  author = {Igor Belegradek and Guofang Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0101106},
  year   = {2007}
}

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14 pages