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A class of locally conformally flat 4-manifolds

Differential Geometry 2013-01-29 v5 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We construct infinite families of non-simply connected locally conformally flat (LCF) 4-manifolds realizing rich topological types. These manifolds have strictly negative scalar curvature and the underlying topological 4-manifolds do not admit any Einstein metrics. Such 4-manifolds are of particular interest as examples of Bach-flat but non-Einstein spaces in the non-simply connected case. Besides that the underlying smooth manifolds are examples of spaces that admit open book decomposition in dimension 4.

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@article{arxiv.0807.0837,
  title  = {A class of locally conformally flat 4-manifolds},
  author = {Selman Akbulut and Mustafa Kalafat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.0837},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

29 pages, 30 figures. Computation of the sign of the scalar curvature is improved. Title changed

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