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We classify the triples $H \subset K \subset G$ of nested compact Lie groups which satisfy the "positive triple" condition that was shown by the second author to ensure that $G/H$ admits a metric with quasi-positive curvature. A few new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-19 Megan M. Kerr , Kristopher Tapp

We study two types of isotropic planes: weakly isotropic and strongly isotropic planes. We prove that a Riemannian manifold of indefinite metric is conformally flat if and only if its curvature tensor vanishes on all the strongly isotropic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-12 Adrijan Borisov , Georgi Ganchev , Ognian Kassabov

Consider the class of n-dimensional Riemannian spin manifolds with bounded sectional curvatures and diameter, and almost non-negative scalar curvature. Let r=1 if n=2,3 and r=2^{[n/2]-1}+1 if n\geq 4. We show that if the square of the Dirac…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-25 Bernd Ammann , Chad Sprouse

In this paper we discuss when a quasi-conformally flat weakly Ricci symmetric manifold (of dimension greater than 3) becomes a manifold of hyper quasi-constant curvature, a quasi-Einstein manifold and a manifold of quasi-constant curvature.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Payel Karmakar , Arindam Bhattacharyya

In this note we prove that a four-dimensional compact oriented half-confor\-mally flat Riemannian manifold $M^4$ is topologically $\mathbb{S}^{4}$ or $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^{2},$ provided that the sectional curvatures all lie in the interval…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-17 R. Diógenes , E. Ribeiro , E. Rufino

We extend the equivariant classification results of Escher and Searle for closed, simply connected, non-negatively curved Riemannian $n$-manifolds admitting isometric isotropy-maximal torus actions to the class of such manifolds admitting…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Zheting Dong , Christine Escher , Catherine Searle

The Positive Mass Theorem implies that any smooth, complete, asymptotically flat 3-manifold with non-negative scalar curvature which has zero total mass is isometric to (R^3, delta_{ij}). In this paper, we quantify this statement using…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hubert Bray , Felix Finster

A compact Riemannian homogeneous space $G/H$, with a bi--invariant orthogonal decomposition $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{h}+\mathfrak{m}$ is called positively curved for commuting pairs, if the sectional curvature vanishes for any tangent plane…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-11 Ming Xu , Joseph A. Wolf

The Schouten tensor \ $A$ \ of a Riemannian manifold \ $(M,g)$ provides important scalar curvature invariants $\sigma_k$, that are the symmetric functions on the eigenvalues of $A$, where, in particular, $\sigma_1$ \ coincides with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Boris Botvinnik , Mohammed Labbi

Sets related to positively curved invariant Riemannian metrics on generalized Wallach spaces are considered. The problem arises in studying of the evolution of such metrics under the normalized Ricci flow equation. For Riemannian metrics of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Nurlan Abiev

Let M be a smooth compact manifold without boundary. We consider two smooth Sub-Semi-Riemannian metrics on M. Under suitable conditions, we show that they are almost conformally isometric in an Lp sense. Assume also that M carries a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Erwann Delay

We prove that the existence of one flat horosphere in the universal cover of a closed, strictly quarter pinched, negatively curved Riemannian manifold of dimension n with n greater than or equal to 3, implies that the manifold is homothetic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-06 Gérard Besson , Gilles Courtois , Sa'ar Hersonsky

We prove the following results: An almost Hermitian manifold of indefinite metric is of pointwise constant holomorphic sectional curvature if the holomorphic sectional curvature is bounded from above and from below. If the antiholomorphic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-12 Adrijan Borisov , Ognian Kassabov

The $c$-curvature of a complete surface with Gauss curvature close to 1 in $C^2$ norm is almost-positive (in the sense of Kim--McCann). Our proof goes by a careful case by case analysis combined with perturbation arguments from the constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-26 Philippe Delanoë , Yuxin Ge

A gap in the proof of the main result in reference [1] in our original submission propagated into the constructions presented in the first version of our manuscript. In this version we give an alternative proof for the existence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Diego Corro , Fernando Galaz-Garcia

Let $G$ be a compact Lie group acting isometrically on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with nonempty fixed point set $M^G$. We say that $M$ is fixed-point homogeneous if $G$ acts transitively on a normal sphere to some component of $M^G$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-13 Fernando Galaz-Garcia

Let (M,g) be a 2-quasi-Einstein non-conformally flat semi-Riemannian manifold of dimension > 3. We prove that if its Riemann-Christoffel curvature tensor R is a linear combination of some Kulkarni-Nomizu tensors formed by the metric tensor…

We prove that closed manifolds admitting a generic metric whose sectional curvature is locally quasi-constant are graphs of space forms. In the more general setting of QC spaces where sets of isotropic points are arbitrary, under suitable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-08 Louis Funar

A Riemannian manifold is called geometrically formal if the wedge product of any two harmonic forms is again harmonic. We classify geometrically formal compact 4-manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature. If the sectional curvature is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Christian Baer

We construct a Riemannian metric of positive sectional curvature on the $3$-dimensional projective space with a two-sided closed embedded minimal surface of genus $3$, index $1$ and nullity $0$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Antonio Ros