Examples of Einstein manifolds in odd dimensions (Q717142)

The Einstein equation \({\mathrm{Ric}}(g)=\lambda g\) is a nonlinear system of partial differential equations. It becomes simpler if the manifold \(M\) has a large isometry group, for example if the isometry group acts transitively or if the principal orbits have codimension one. Another natural simplification of the Einstein equation can be obtained on the total space of a Riemannian submersion with totally geodesic fibers. If the structure group of the underlying fiber bundle is a compact torus and the base is closed, then the curvature form of a principal connection is the pullback of a harmonic 2-form on the base. This leads to considering principal torus bundles over products of Kähler-Einstein manifolds and their associated fiber bundles. Interesting examples of Einstein metrics have been discovered on these spaces, for example the inhomogeneous Einstein metric with positive scalar curvature, the nontrivial 2-sphere bundle over \({\mathbb C}P^1\). Later, this was extended to positive Hermitian-Einstein metrics on certain 2-sphere bundles over products of Fano Kähler-Einstein manifolds. On the other hand, inhomogeneous Fano Kähler-Einstein metrics on certain 2-sphere bundles over two copies of the same Fano Kähler-Einstein manifolds were constructed. These Einstein metrics live on the 2-sphere bundles associated with a principal circle bundle. In the present paper, Einstein metrics of non-positive scalar curvature are constructed on certain solid torus bundles over a Fano Kähler-Einstein manifold. It is shown that negative Einstein metrics are conformally compact and Ricci-flat metrics have slower-than-Euclidean volume growth and quadratic curvature decay. Further, positive Einstein metrics are constructed on certain 3-sphere bundles over a Fano Kähler-Einstein manifold. When the base is the complex projective plane, homeomorphism- and diffeomorphism-types of the total spaces are classified.