On the moduli space of nonnegatively curved metrics on Milnor spheres

Abstract

Let $M$ be a Milnor sphere or, more generally, the total space of a linear $S^3$-bundle over $S^4$ with $H^4(M;\mathbb{Q})=0$. We show that the moduli space of metrics of nonnegative sectional curvature on $M$ has infinitely many path components. The same holds true for the moduli space of metrics of positive Ricci curvature on $M$.

slightly enlarged version with minor modifications, references added including the recent work of Goodman

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