Abstract
We establish a link between rational homotopy theory and the problem which vector bundles admit a complete Riemannian metric of nonnegative sectional curvature. As an application, we show for a large class of simply-connected nonnegatively curved manifolds that, if C C lies in the class and T T is a torus of positive dimension, then “most” vector bundles over C × T C\times T admit no complete nonnegatively curved metrics.
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