Hitchin-Thorpe-type inequalities for pseudo-Riemannian 4-manifolds of metric signature \((++--)\)

DOI10.1023/A:1012002211862zbMath1018.53031MaRDI QIDQ5955153

Yasuo Matsushita, Peter R. Law

Publication date: 5 August 2002

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1012002211862

zbMATH Keywords

Euler characteristic; Einstein condition; Hirzebruch index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C25: Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.)

53C50: Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics

53C15: General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.)

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