Manifolds with pinched 2-positive curvature operator.pdfVIP

Front．Math．China2012，7(5)：873—882 DOI10．1007／s11464—012—0221—6 M anifoldswithpinched2-positivecurvature operator GangPENG， Honglina gSHAO DepartmentofMathematics，CapitalNormalUniversity，Beijing100048，China ⑥ HigherEducationPressandSpringer—VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2012 Abstract Inthispaper，weshow thatanycompleteRiemannianmanifoIdof dimension greatthan 2mustbecompactifithaspositivecomplexsectional curvatureand 一pinched2一positivecurvatureoperator，namely，thesum ofthe twosmallesteigenvaluesofcurvatureoperatorareboundedbelowby ·8caf 0． Ifwerelaxtherestrictionofpositivityofcomplex sectiona