Almost Nonnegative Curvature on Some Fake RP⁶s and RP¹⁴s

2015/10/18 by Priyanka Rajan, Rajan, Priyanka, Frederick Wilhelm +1
Mathematics · #53C20 #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #math.DG #msc:53C20

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1510.05320

arxiv created 2015/12/23 · arxiv updated 2015/12/25

Abstract

We apply the lifting theorem of Searle and the second author to put metrics of almost nonnegative curvature on the fake RP⁶s of Hirsch and Milnor and on the analogous fake RP¹⁴s.

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