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Harnack Inequalities for Critical 4-manifolds with a Ricci Curvature Bound

Differential Geometry 2013-09-16 v3

Abstract

We study critical Riemannian 4-manifolds with a lower bound on Ricci curvature, but no a priori analytic constraints such as on Sobolev constants. We derive elliptic-type estimates for the local curvature radius, which itself controls sectional curvature. The primary method is construction of blow-ups of degenerating metrics, followed by a geometric/topological triviality result from a previous work.

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@article{arxiv.1309.0863,
  title  = {Harnack Inequalities for Critical 4-manifolds with a Ricci Curvature Bound},
  author = {Brian Weber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.0863},
  year   = {2013}
}

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