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Negatively curved Einstein metrics on Gromov-Thurston manifolds

Differential Geometry 2025-01-22 v2

Abstract

For every n4n\geq 4 we construct infinitely many mutually not homotopic closed manifolds of dimension nn which admit a negatively curved Einstein metric but no locally symmetric metric.

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@article{arxiv.2411.12956,
  title  = {Negatively curved Einstein metrics on Gromov-Thurston manifolds},
  author = {Ursula Hamenstädt and Frieder Jäckel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.12956},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

29 pages, 1 figure. Version 2: Minor corrections in Sections 1-4, and Section 5 was rewritten for forthcoming work