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Quaternionic-K\"ahler manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature

Differential Geometry 2025-06-30 v1

Abstract

We show that a compact quaternionic-K\"ahler manifold with positive scalar curvature and nonnegative sectional curvature is isometric to a symmetric space. This extends a classical theorem of Berger.

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@article{arxiv.2506.22181,
  title  = {Quaternionic-K\"ahler manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature},
  author = {S. Brendle and U. Semmelmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.22181},
  year   = {2025}
}