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Non-negative curvature on certain product manifolds

Differential Geometry 2025-08-22 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

Let G/HG/H be a closed, simply connected homogeneous manifold. Suppose every stable class of real vector bundles over G/HG/H contains a homogeneous bundle. Then, for any closed, simply connected smooth manifold MM homotopy equivalent to G/HG/H, there exists n>dim(M)n>\mathrm{dim}(M) such that the product manifold M×SnM\times S^{n} admits a metric with non-negative sectional curvature. Many homogeneous manifolds satisfy this assumption, including simply connected compact rank-one symmetric spaces, and among others.

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@article{arxiv.2508.15194,
  title  = {Non-negative curvature on certain product manifolds},
  author = {Wen Shen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.15194},
  year   = {2025}
}