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Four-orbifolds with positive isotropic curvature

Differential Geometry 2016-02-03 v7

Abstract

We prove the following result: Let (X,g0)(X,g_0) be a complete, connected 4-manifold with uniformly positive isotropic curvature and with bounded geometry. Then there is a finite collection F\mathcal{F} of manifolds of the form S3×R/G\mathbb{S}^3 \times \mathbb{R} /G, where GG is a discrete subgroup of the isometry group of the round cylinder S3×R\mathbb{S}^3\times \mathbb{R} on which GG acts freely, such that XX is diffeomorphic to a possibly infinite connected sum of S4,RP4\mathbb{S}^4,\mathbb{RP}^4 and members of F\mathcal{F}. This extends recent work of Chen-Tang-Zhu and Huang. We also extend the above result to the case of orbifolds. The proof uses Ricci flow with surgery on complete orbifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1107.1469,
  title  = {Four-orbifolds with positive isotropic curvature},
  author = {Hong Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.1469},
  year   = {2016}
}

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slightly different from the published version