The Hopf conjecture for manifolds with low cohomogeneity or high symmetry rank (Q2750900)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1663145
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The Hopf conjecture for manifolds with low cohomogeneity or high symmetry rank
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1663145

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    The Hopf conjecture for manifolds with low cohomogeneity or high symmetry rank (English)
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    21 October 2001
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    even dimensional compact manifold
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    sectional curvature
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    Euler characteristic
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    This paper proves that an even dimensional compact manifold with positive (nonnegative) sectional curvature has positive (nonnegative) Euler characteristic if the manifold has an action of a compact Lie group satisfying appropriate conditions.
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