Nonexistence of positive sectional curvature on S2×S2\mathbb{S}^{2}\times\mathbb{S}^{2}

Let S2×S2\mathbb{S}^{2}\times\mathbb{S}^{2} be the product of two 2-spheres. Hopf's product conjecture. There is no Riemannian metric on S2×S2\mathbb{S}^{2}\times\mathbb{S}^{2} with positive sectional curvature. The statement is one of the Hopf conjectures recalled after the proposed flow conjecture. The supplied text gives no evidence of resolution.

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Yi Li and Kefeng Liu, “A geometric heat flow for vector fields”, arXiv:1107.2698 (2014).

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