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Strongly nonnegative curvature

Differential Geometry 2017-08-31 v2

Abstract

We prove that all currently known examples of manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature satisfy a stronger condition: their curvature operator can be modified with a 4-form to become positive-semidefinite.

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@article{arxiv.1511.07899,
  title  = {Strongly nonnegative curvature},
  author = {Renato G. Bettiol and Ricardo A. E. Mendes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.07899},
  year   = {2017}
}

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LaTeX2e, 14 pages, revised version (some details given in previous versions are now omitted, following referee's request). To appear in Math. Ann

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