There are very few known examples of manifolds with positive sectional curvature. Apart from the compact rank one symmetric spaces, they exist only in dimensions 24 and below and are all obtained as quotients of a compact Lie group equipped with a biinvariant metric under an isometric group action. They consist of certain homogeneous spaces in dimensions 6, 7, 12, 13 and 24 due to Berger [Be], ...

We investigate left-invariant Hitchin and hypo flows on 5-, 6and 7-dimensional Lie groups. They provide Riemannian cohomogeneity-one manifolds of one dimension higher with holonomy contained in SU(3), G2 and Spin(7), respectively, which are in general geodesically incomplete. Generalizing results of Conti, we prove that for large classes of solvable Lie groups G these manifolds cannot be comple...

We classify SO(n)-equivariant principal bundles over Sn in terms of their isotropy representations over the north and south poles. This is an example of a general result classifying equivariant (Π, G)-bundles over cohomogeneity one manifolds.

We analyse in a systematic way the (non-)compact n-dimensional Einstein-Weyl spaces equipped with a cohomogeneity-one metric. In that context, with no compactness hypothesis for the manifold on which lives the Einstein-Weyl structure, we prove that, as soon as the (n-1)-dimensional space is a homogeneous reductive Riemannian space with a unimodular group of left-acting isometries G : • there ex...

We construct natural selfmaps of compact cohomgeneity one manifolds with finite Weyl group and compute their degrees and Lefschetz numbers. On manifolds with simple cohomology rings this yields in certain cases relations between the order of the Weyl group and the Euler characteristic of a principal orbit. We apply our construction to the compact Lie group SU(3) where we realize all possible de...