Abstract
We study the geometry of the tangent bundle equipped with a two-parameter family of metrics, deforming the Sasaki and Cheeger-Gromoll metrics. After deriving the expression for the Levi-Civita connection, we compute the Riemann curvature tensor and the sectional, Ricci and scalar curvatures. We identify all metrics whose restrictions to the fibres have positive sectional curvature. When the base manifold is a space form, we characterise metrics with non-negative sectional curvature and show that one can always find parameters ensuring positive scalar curvature. This extends to compact manifolds and, under some curvature conditions, to general manifolds.
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