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On noncollapsed almost Ricci-flat 4-manifolds

Differential Geometry 2017-10-17 v3

Abstract

We give topological conditions to ensure that a noncollapsed almost Ricci-flat 4-manifold admits a Ricci-flat metric. One sufficient condition is that the manifold is spin and has a nonzero A-hat genus. Another condition is that the fundamental group is infinite or, more generally, of sufficiently large cardinality.

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@article{arxiv.1606.09041,
  title  = {On noncollapsed almost Ricci-flat 4-manifolds},
  author = {Vitali Kapovitch and John Lott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.09041},
  year   = {2017}
}

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21 pages, final version

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