A sharp characterization of the smooth 4-sphere in curvature terms

DOI10.4310/CAG.1998.V6.N1.A2zbMath0966.53022OpenAlexW76325780MaRDI QIDQ1128152

Christophe M. Margerin

Publication date: 18 April 2001

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/cag.1998.v6.n1.a2

zbMATH Keywords

Ricci flowsphere theoremweak pinching

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

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