The non-negative curvature and Seifert fibration conjecture for 2-connected 7-manifolds

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Let MM be a 22-connected 77-manifold whose cohomology ring is that of an S3\mathbf{S}^3-bundle over S4\mathbf{S}^4. A non-negative curvature and Seifert fibration conjecture asserts that MM admits a non-negatively curved, codimension-one singular Riemannian foliation with singular leaves of codimension two, and a Seifert fibration onto an orbifold S4\mathbf{S}^4 with generic fibre S3\mathbf{S}^3. This would extend the geometric constructions discussed in the paper beyond the manifolds Ma‾,b‾7M^7_{\underline{a},\underline{b}} and would provide such structures for all 2-connected 7-manifolds with this cohomology type; the conjecture is presented as an open question.

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Sebastian Goette, Martin Kerin and Krishnan Shankar, “Highly connected 7-manifolds, the linking form and non-negative curvature”, arXiv:2003.04907 (2020).

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