New Homogeneous Einstein Metrics of Negative Ricci Curvature

We construct new homogeneous Einstein spaces with negativeRicci curvature in two ways: First, we give a method for classifying andconstructing a class of rank one Einstein solvmanifolds whose derivedalgebras are two-step nilpotent. As an application, we describe anexplicit continuous family of ten-dimensional Einstein manifolds with atwo-dimensional parameter space, including a continuous subfamily ofmanifolds with negative sectional curvature. Secondly, we obtain newexamples of non-symmetric Einstein solvmanifolds by modifying thealgebraic structure of non-compact irreducible symmetric spaces of rankgreater than one, preserving the (constant) Ricci curvature.