scholarly journals Einstein Four-Manifolds With Self-Dual Weyl Curvature of Nonnegative Determinant

Author(s):  
Peng Wu

Abstract We prove that simply connected Einstein four-manifolds of positive scalar curvature are conformally Kähler if and only if the determinant of the self-dual Weyl curvature is positive.

Author(s):  
Michael Wiemeler

Abstract Let $M$ be a simply connected spin manifold of dimension at least six, which admits a metric of positive scalar curvature. We show that the observer moduli space of positive scalar curvature metrics on $M$ has non-trivial higher homotopy groups. Moreover, denote by $\mathcal{M}_0^+(M)$ the moduli space of positive scalar curvature metrics on $M$ associated to the group of orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms of $M$. We show that if $M$ belongs to a certain class of manifolds that includes $(2n-2)$-connected $(4n-2)$-dimensional manifolds, then the fundamental group of $\mathcal{M}_0^+(M)$ is non-trivial.


2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 901-908
Author(s):  
Philipp Reiser

AbstractLet $M$ be a topological spherical space form, i.e., a smooth manifold whose universal cover is a homotopy sphere. We determine the number of path components of the space and moduli space of Riemannian metrics with positive scalar curvature on $M$ if the dimension of $M$ is at least 5 and $M$ is not simply-connected.


2003 ◽  
Vol 245 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Hanke ◽  
D. Kotschick ◽  
J. Wehrheim

Author(s):  
Georg Frenck

AbstractWe present a rigidity theorem for the action of the mapping class group $$\pi _0({\mathrm{Diff}}(M))$$ π 0 ( Diff ( M ) ) on the space $$\mathcal {R}^+(M)$$ R + ( M ) of metrics of positive scalar curvature for high dimensional manifolds M. This result is applicable to a great number of cases, for example to simply connected 6-manifolds and high dimensional spheres. Our proof is fairly direct, using results from parametrised Morse theory, the 2-index theorem and computations on certain metrics on the sphere. We also give a non-triviality criterion and a classification of the action for simply connected 7-dimensional $${\mathrm{Spin}}$$ Spin -manifolds.


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