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On compact manifolds with positive isotropic curvature

Author(s): M.-L. Labbi
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), 1467-1474.
MSC (1991): Primary 53B20, 53C21
Posted: August 3, 1999
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Abstract: In this paper we construct new Riemannian metrics with positive isotropic curvature on compact manifolds which fiber over the circle. We also study the relationship between the positivity of the isotropic curvature and the positivity of the $p$-curvature.


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M.-L. Labbi
Affiliation: Department of mathematics, College of Sciences, University of Bahrain, P.O. Box 32038, Isa town, Bahrain - Permanent address: 4, rue de Sicile, Les Bioclimatiques n4, 34080 Montpellier, France
Email: labbi@sci.uob.bh

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-99-05153-9
PII: S 0002-9939(99)05153-9
Received by editor(s): June 30, 1998
Posted: August 3, 1999
Communicated by: Józef Dodziuk
Copyright of article: Copyright 2000, American Mathematical Society


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