{ "id": "0810.4524", "version": "v2", "published": "2008-10-24T18:56:44.000Z", "updated": "2012-03-09T15:09:22.000Z", "title": "Some new examples with almost positive curvature", "authors": [ "Martin Kerin" ], "comment": "43 pages, updated title and abstract, main result and exposition improved", "journal": "Geometry & Topology 15 (2011) 217-260", "doi": "10.2140/gt.2011.15.217", "categories": [ "math.DG" ], "abstract": "As a means to better understanding manifolds with positive curvature, there has been much recent interest in the study of non-negatively curved manifolds which contain points at which all 2-planes have positive curvature. We show that there are generalisations of the well-known Eschenburg spaces and quotients of $\\sph^7 \\x \\sph^7$ which admit metrics with this property.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2012-03-09T15:09:22.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "53C20", "57S25", "57T15" ], "keywords": [ "positive curvature", "well-known eschenburg spaces", "better understanding manifolds", "contain points", "admit metrics" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 43, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2008arXiv0810.4524K" } } }