Spherical rank rigidity and Blaschke manifolds

Details Spherical rank rigidity and Blaschke manifolds Spherical rank rigidity and Blaschke manifolds

2003-05-12

arxiv.org/abs/math/0305177v1

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

14 pages, 1 table

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Let M be a complete Riemannian manifold whose sectional curvature is bounded above by 1. We say that M has positive spherical rank if along every geodesic one hits a conjugate point at t=\pi. The following theorem is then proved: If M is a complete, simply connected Riemannian manifold with upper curvature bound 1 and positive spherical rank, then M is isometric to a compact, rank one symmetric space (CROSS) i.e., isometric to a sphere, complex projective space, quaternionic projective space or to the Cayley plane. The notion of spherical rank is analogous to the notions of Euclidean rank and hyperbolic rank studied by several people (see references). The main theorem is proved in two steps: first we show that M is a so called Blaschke manifold with extremal injectivity radius (equal to diameter). Then we prove that such M is isometric to a CROSS.

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