Vector bundles with no soul
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- by Murad Özaydin and Gerard Walschap
- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 120 (1994), 565-567
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1994-1162091-X
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Abstract:
We exhibit vector bundles over compact manifolds of nonnegative sectional curvature whose total spaces do not admit a complete metric of nonnegative sectional curvature.References
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Bibliographic Information
- © Copyright 1994 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 120 (1994), 565-567
- MSC: Primary 53C20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1994-1162091-X
- MathSciNet review: 1162091