Noncollapsed degeneration of Einstein 4-manifolds. II (Q2105812)

The present long and interesting article is a continuation of [Geom. Topol. 26, No. 4, 1483--1528 (2022; Zbl 07629606)] by the same author. In that article it was shown that Einstein manifolds sufficiently close, in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense, to an orbifold are actually close to a gluing of model spaces in suitable weighted Holder spaces. Such investigation is motivated by theorems of Anderson, Bando, Kasue and Nakajima from the 1980's, which raise the questions whether all Einstein orbifolds are Gromov-Hausdorff limits of smooth Einstein manifolds, or if it is possible to describe more precisely the smooth Einstein metrics close to a given singular one. In this second article, the author proves that any desingularization in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense of an Einstein orbifold by smooth Einstein metrics is the result of a gluing-perturbation procedure.