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When does a simply connected Lie group with an invariant metric of positive sectional curvature is compact?

When does a simply connected Lie group with an invariant metric of positive sectional curvature is compact?

The point of the question is: does this hypothesis provide to the positive sectional curvature metric a positive inferior bound for Ricci curvature in the sense of Bonnet-Meyers's theorem? If not, in which conditions is it possible? Is there any counterexample? If Bonnet-Meyers is not satisfected, is yet the group compact? I mean, does there any obstruction in therms of the Lie algebra of the group?

Thanks

L.F. Cavenaghi
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