The maximal symmetry rank conjecture for nonnegative curvature
Presenter
January 21, 2016
Keywords:
- differential geometry
- Riemannian geometry
- modern geometry
- curvature
- curvature estimates
- Ricci curvature
- Ricci curvature lower bounds
MSC:
- 57S15
- 53-XX
- 53CXX
- 53C21
- 53C44
Abstract
A reformulated version of the Maximal Symmetry Rank conjecture for non-negative curvature states:
Maximal Symmetry Rank Conjecture. Let T^k act isometrically and effectively on M^n, a closed, simply-connected, non-negatively curved Riemannian manifold. Then:
1) k r) S^(2n_i) with r\ge 2k-n; or if n\neq 0 mod 3, the quotient of N by the free linear action of a torus of rank