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A three-manifold without conjugate points or nonpositive curvature. Constructs a closed connected orientable smooth three-manifold that admits a metric without conjugate points but no metric of nonpositive sectional curvature. This answers negatively, already in dimension three, whether the first metric-existence property implies the second.

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LEVEL 1 A Three-Manifold Without Conjugate Points and Without a Nonpositively Curved Metric

released 2026-09-24 | 2 theorems · 10 lemmas · 17 proofs · 8,316 words | PLAY LEVEL 1 » (pdf)

We construct a closed connected orientable smooth three-manifold that admits a smooth Riemannian metric without conjugate points but admits no smooth Riemannian metric of nonpositive sectional curvature.

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