Topology of non-negatively curved manifolds
Abstract: We examine several classes of manifolds which have the same cohomology ring as an Eschenburg space (a family of biquotients which is a main source of manifolds with positive curvature). One family are the 3-sphere bundles over CP2. Another are the circle bundles over a base, which itself is one of the family of CP1 bundles over CP2. We classify such manifolds up to diffeomorphism using the Kreck-Stolz invariants. Comparisons of the invariants is then used to find many diffeomorphism of the total space of these bundles with positively curved Eschenburg spaces. The total space of each bundle (in the case where the bundle is not spin) also admit a metric with non-negative sectional curvature, and in some cases an Einstein metric as well.
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