Spin Manifolds, Einstein Metrics, and Differential Topology

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2001-07-16

arxiv.org/abs/math/0107111v2

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

17 pages, LaTeX2e; minor errors corrected; references added

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We show that there exist smooth, simply connected, four-dimensional spin manifolds which do not admit Einstein metrics, but nonetheless satisfy the strict Hitchin-Thorpe inequality. Our construction makes use of the Bauer/Furuta cohomotopy refinement of the Seiberg-Witten invariant, in conjunction with curvature estimates previously proved by the second author. These methods also easily allow one to construct examples of topological 4-manifolds which admit an Einstein metric for one smooth structure, but which have infinitely many other smooth structures for which no Einstein metric can exist.

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