Pontryagin numbers and nonnegative curvature
classification
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math.GT
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curvaturenonnegativenumberspontryaginresultsignaturecharacterizationclosed
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We prove that any rational linear combination of Pontryagin numbers that is not a multiple of the signature is unbounded on connected closed oriented manifolds of nonnegative sectional curvature. Combining our result with Gromov's finiteness result for the signature yields a new characterization of the L-genus.
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