On Optimal 4-Dimensional Metrics |
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Authors: | Claude LeBrun Bernard Maskit |
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Institution: | (1) Mathematics Department, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3651, USA |
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Abstract: | We completely determine, up to homeomorphism, which simply connected compact oriented 4-manifolds admit scalar-flat, anti-self-dual
Riemannian metrics. The key new ingredient is a proof that the connected sum
of five reverse-oriented complex projective planes admits such metrics.
Supported in part by NSF grant DMS-0604735. |
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Keywords: | 4-manifold Anti-self-dual metric Scalar curvature Kleinian group |
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