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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 S4,\mathbb{S}^4, or RP4\mathbb{R}\mathbb{P}^4 or quotients of S3×R\mathbb{S}^3\times \mathbb{R} by a cocompact fixed point free subgroup of the isometry group of the standard metric of S3×R\mathbb{S}^3\times \mathbb{R}, 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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