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Four-manifolds with positive curvature

Differential Geometry 2020-03-17 v2

Abstract

In this note we prove that a four-dimensional compact oriented half-confor\-mally flat Riemannian manifold M4M^4 is topologically S4\mathbb{S}^{4} or CP2,\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^{2}, provided that the sectional curvatures all lie in the interval [3354,1].[\frac{3\sqrt{3}-5}{4},\,1]. In addition, we use the notion of biorthogonal (sectional) curvature to obtain a pinching condition which guarantees that a four-dimensional compact manifold is homeomorphic to a connected sum of copies of the complex projective plane or the 44-sphere.

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@article{arxiv.1809.06150,
  title  = {Four-manifolds with positive curvature},
  author = {R. Diógenes and E. Ribeiro and E. Rufino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.06150},
  year   = {2020}
}

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