# On Closed 6-Manifolds Admitting Riemannian Metrics with Positive Sectional Curvature and Non-Abelian Symmetry

## TL;DR

This paper investigates the topology of 6-dimensional positively curved manifolds with non-abelian symmetry, showing their Euler characteristics match known examples and classifying certain symmetry actions.

## Contribution

It provides a classification of 6-manifolds with positive sectional curvature under non-abelian symmetry actions, extending understanding of their topology and symmetry restrictions.

## Key findings

- Euler characteristic matches known examples
- Classification of certain symmetry actions
- Restrictions on exceptional strata

## Abstract

We study the topology of closed, simply-connected, 6-dimensional Riemannian manifolds of positive sectional curvature which admit isometric actions by $SU(2)$ or $SO(3)$. We show that their Euler characteristic agrees with that of the known examples, i.e. $S^6$, $\mathbb{CP}^3$, the Wallach space $SU(3)/T^2$ and the biquotient $SU(3)//T^2$. We also classify, up to equivariant diffeomorphism, certain actions without exceptional orbits and show that there are strong restrictions on the exceptional strata.