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Torus manifolds and non-negative curvature

Differential Geometry 2015-11-05 v5 Geometric Topology

Abstract

A torus manifold MM is a 2n2n-dimensional orientable manifold with an effective action of an nn-dimensional torus such that MTM^T\neq \emptyset. In this paper we discuss the classification of torus manifolds which admit an invariant metric of non-negative curvature. If MM is a simply connected torus manifold which admits such a metric, then MM is diffeomorphic to a quotient of a free linear torus action on a product of spheres. We also classify rationally elliptic torus manifolds MM with Hodd(M;Z)=0H^{\text{odd}}(M;\mathbb{Z})=0 up homeomorphism.

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@article{arxiv.1401.0403,
  title  = {Torus manifolds and non-negative curvature},
  author = {Michael Wiemeler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0403},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

26 pages; There was a gap in the arguments in section 4 therefore Theorem 1.1 is only proved for torus manifolds with vanishing odd degree integer cohomology; results about non-simply connected torus manifolds added; to appear in J. Lond. Math. Soc