Manifolds with nonnegative curvature operator of the second kind

Abstract

We investigate the curvature operator of the second kind on Riemannian manifolds and prove several classification results. The first one asserts that a closed Riemannian manifold with three-positive curvature operator of the second kind is diffeomorphic to a spherical space form, improving a recent result of Cao-Gursky-Tran assuming two-positivity. The second one states that a closed Riemannian manifold with three-nonnegative curvature operator of the second kind is either diffeomorphic to a spherical space form, or flat, or isometric to a quotient of a compact irreducible symmetric space. This settles the nonnegativity part of Nishikawa's conjecture under a weaker assumption.

Final version, to appear in Commun. Contemp. Math. Theorem 1.6 added; Footnotes added; Remark 2.1 added; Comments are welcome. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2207.00520

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