Publications Meetings The Profession Membership Programs Math Samplings Policy & Advocacy In the News About the AMS
|
   
Available in electronic format
Available in print format
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
ISSN 1088-6826(e) ISSN 0002-9939(p)

     

A note on the cohomological below $1/4$-pinching theorem

Author(s): Zizhou Tang
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 577-578.
MSC (2000): Primary 53C20; Secondary 57R19
Posted: May 7, 2001
MathSciNet review: 1862139
Retrieve article in: PDF
This article is available free of charge

Abstract | References | Similar articles | Additional information

Abstract:

By making use of a theorem of Toda, we establish a sharper version of the below $1/4$-pinching theorem of Abresch and Meyer.


References:

[AM1]
U. Abresch and W.T. Meyer, A sphere theorem with a pinching constant below $1/4$, J. Diff. Geom. 44(1996), 214-261. MR 97i:53036

[AM2]
U. Abresch and W.T. Meyer, Injectivity radius estimates and sphere theorems, In Comparison geometry, MSRI Pub. Cambridge University Press, 1997. MR 98e:53052

[Hu]
D. Husemoller, Fibre bundles, GTM Vol.20, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1975. MR 51:6805

[To]
H. Toda, Note on cohomology ring of certain spaces, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 14(1963), 89-95. MR 27:750


Similar Articles:

Retrieve articles in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society with MSC (2000): 53C20, 57R19

Retrieve articles in all Journals with MSC (2000): 53C20, 57R19


Additional Information:

Zizhou Tang
Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China
Email: zztang@mx.cei.gov.cn

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06070-1
PII: S 0002-9939(01)06070-1
Keywords: Pinching constant, rank-one symmetric spaces, cohomology rings
Received by editor(s): October 14, 1999
Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 19, 2000
Posted: May 7, 2001
Additional Notes: The author's research was partially supported by the Hong Kong Qiu-Shi Foundation (1998), the Outstanding Youth Foundation of NSF in China (No.19925103) and the Education Foundation of Tsinghua University, as well as the Grants-in-Aid for Science Research of the Japanese Ministry of Education (No.09440039).
Communicated by: Wolfgang Ziller
Copyright of article: Copyright 2001, American Mathematical Society




AMS and Social Media LinkedIn Facebook Podcasts Twitter YouTube RSS Feeds Blogs Wikipedia