Folk conjecture on Einstein four-manifolds with non-negative sectional curvature
Folk conjecture on Einstein four-manifolds with non-negative sectional curvature
Let be a smooth four-dimensional Einstein manifold satisfying
for a constant , and suppose that its sectional curvature is non-negative. The metrics , , and the product metric are respectively the round metric on , the Fubini–Study metric on , and the product of equal-curvature round metrics on . Folk conjecture. The manifold must be either , , , or a quotient of one of these spaces. This is a classification conjecture motivated by the known irreducible and reducible symmetric examples; its resolution is not specified in the supplied source context.
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Xiaodong Cao and Hung Tran, “Einstein four-manifolds of pinched sectional curvature”, arXiv:1612.06023 (2019).
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