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Positively curved 7-dimensional manifolds

dg-ga 2007-05-23 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We deal with seven dimensional compact Riemannian manifolds of positive curvature which admit a cohomogeneity one action by a compact Lie group G. We prove that the manifold is diffeomorphic to a sphere if the dimension of the semisimple part of G is bigger than 6.

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@article{arxiv.dg-ga/9712002,
  title  = {Positively curved 7-dimensional manifolds},
  author = {Fabio Podesta and Luigi Verdiani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:dg-ga/9712002},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages; this new version contains one more important example

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