In Chern and Kuiper conjectured in [2] that the result holds if the Riemannian (i.e. sectional) curvature K of M is never positive. An algebraic result verifying this conjecture was found by Otsuki We shall prove:
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Barrett O’Neill (1960) studied this question.
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