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# An exotic sphere with positive sectional curvature

06/2008;
Source: arXiv

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We show that there is a metric on the Gromoll-Meyer sphere with positive sectional curvature.

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• "By constructing invariant metrics of non-negative sectional curvature on cohomogeneity one manifolds with codimension two singular orbits, and applying this to the associated principle bundles of the Milnor spheres, Grove and Ziller [14] proved that all 10 Milnor spheres admit metrics with non-negative sectional curvature. In 2008, Petersen and Wilhelm [35] showed that there is a metric on the Gromoll–Meyer sphere with positive sectional curvature. "
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• "Further, until the recent example due to Grove, Verdiani, and Ziller [17] and Dearicott [7], all known examples of compact manifolds with positive sectional curvature were diffeomorphic to biquotients. See [5] [1] [37] [11] [12] [4] [31]. Furthermore, all known examples of manifolds with almost or quasipositive curvature are diffeomorphic to biquotients. "
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