A note on the Hitchin-Thorpe inequality and Ricci flow on 4-manifolds
Differential Geometry
2011-03-08 v4
Abstract
In this short paper, we prove a Hitchin-Thorpe type inequality for closed 4-manifolds with non-positive Yamabe invariant, and admitting long time solutions of the normalized Ricci flow equation with bounded scalar curvature.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0903.2539,
title = {A note on the Hitchin-Thorpe inequality and Ricci flow on 4-manifolds},
author = {Yuguang Zhang and Zhenlei Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.2539},
year = {2011}
}