Complete classification of compact four-manifolds with positive isotropic curvature
Differential Geometry
2008-10-14 v1 Geometric Topology
Abstract
In this paper, we completely classify all compact 4-manifolds with positive isotropic curvature. We show that they are diffeomorphic to or or quotients of by a cocompact fixed point free subgroup of the isometry group of the standard metric of , or a connected sum of them.
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@article{arxiv.0810.1999,
title = {Complete classification of compact four-manifolds with positive isotropic curvature},
author = {Bing-Long Chen and Siu-Hung Tang and Xi-Ping Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.1999},
year = {2008}
}
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33 pages