Metric Foliations and Curvature

Download or read book Metric Foliations and Curvature written by Detlef Gromoll and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riemannian manifolds, particularly those with positive or nonnegative curvature, are constructed from only a handful by means of metric fibrations or deformations thereof. This text documents some of these constructions, many of which have only appeared in journal form. The emphasis is less on the fibration itself and more on how to use it to either construct or understand a metric with curvature of fixed sign on a given space.