The construction of negatively Ricci curved manifolds (Q795349): Difference between revisions

We give the affirmative answer to the problem rose by Bourguignon that the connected sum of two Riemannian manifolds with negative Ricci curvature has a metric with negative Ricci curvature. We also proved that the ''connected sum along circles'' of two negatively Ricci curved manifolds has a metric with negative Ricci curvature. This ''connected sum'' is defined as follows. Let \(X_ 1\) and \(X_ 2\) be two \(C^{\infty}\) manifolds, and \(\gamma_ i\) is a simple closed curve in \(X_ i (i=1,2)\). Take a smooth tubular neighborhood \(V_ i\) of \(\gamma_ i\) in \(X_ i\), let \(\phi:\partial V_ 1\to \partial V_ 2\) be a diffeomorphism of the boundaries. We use \(X_ 1\oplus_{\phi}X_ 2\) to denote the manifold obtained by gluing \(X_ 1-V_ 1\) and \(X_ 2- V_ 2\) along the boundaries by \(\phi\). We call \(X_ 1\oplus_{\phi}X_ 2\) the connected sum along circles of \(X_ 1\) and \(X_ 2\). Particularly in dimension three, we use the above results and some topological constructions to obtain new manifolds with a negative Ricci curvature metric. Given a complete three dimensional Riemannian manifold M with a negative Ricci curvature metric, then there are complete negatively Ricci curved metrics on \(M\oplus S^ 2\times S^ 1\); \(M\oplus S^ 2\times S^ 1\oplus L(p,q)\), and on \(M\oplus S^ 2\times S^ 1\oplus \Sigma \times S^ 1\), where \(\Sigma\) is any oriented Riemannian surface.