Universal covers of non-negatively curved manifolds and formality

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Main Author: Milivojevic, Aleksandar
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Published: 2024
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author Milivojevic, Aleksandar
author_facet Milivojevic, Aleksandar
contents We show that if the universal cover of a closed smooth manifold admitting a metric with non-negative Ricci curvature is formal, then the manifold itself is formal. We reprove a result of Fiorenza-Kawai-Lê-Schwachhöfer, that closed orientable manifolds with a non-negative Ricci curvature metric and sufficiently large first Betti number are formal. Our method allows us to remove the orientability hypothesis; we further address some cases of non-closed manifolds.
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spellingShingle Universal covers of non-negatively curved manifolds and formality
Milivojevic, Aleksandar
Differential Geometry
Algebraic Topology
55P62, 57R19, 53C25
We show that if the universal cover of a closed smooth manifold admitting a metric with non-negative Ricci curvature is formal, then the manifold itself is formal. We reprove a result of Fiorenza-Kawai-Lê-Schwachhöfer, that closed orientable manifolds with a non-negative Ricci curvature metric and sufficiently large first Betti number are formal. Our method allows us to remove the orientability hypothesis; we further address some cases of non-closed manifolds.
title Universal covers of non-negatively curved manifolds and formality
topic Differential Geometry
Algebraic Topology
55P62, 57R19, 53C25
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19539