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- Title
Positive curvature, local and global symmetry, and fundamental groups.
- Authors
Rong, Xiaochun
- Abstract
Examines the involvement of compact manifolds in metrics with positive sectional curvature. Assertion of Berger's vanishing theorem on the dimension of compact manifold; Admittance of generalized isometric torus action; Property establishment for fundamental groups; Cyclic subgroup with index bounded by a constant depending on the dimension.
- Subjects
MANIFOLDS (Mathematics); CURVATURE; VANISHING theorems; ISOMETRIC projection
- Publication
American Journal of Mathematics, 1999, Vol 121, Issue 5, p931
- ISSN
0002-9327
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ajm.1999.0036