Geometry & Topology

Event Information Nonconnected Moduli Spaces of Nonnegative Sectional Curvature Metrics on Closed Simply Connected Manifolds
16:10 on Monday November 30, 2015
17:00 on Monday November 30, 2015
BA6183, Bahen Center, 40 St. George St.
Wilderich Tuschmann

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

I will discuss spaces and moduli spaces of Riemannian metrics with lower curvature bounds and their connectedness properties and, in particular, the following recent result which is joint work with Anand Dessai and Stephan Klaus:

In each dimension $4n+3$, $n\geq 1$, there exist closed simply connected manifolds for which the moduli space of Riemannian metrics with nonnegative sectional curvature has infinitely many path components. Spaces with these properties were known before only in dimension seven, and our result does also hold for moduli spaces of Riemannian metrics with positive Ricci curvature.