Einstein manifolds of non-negative sectional curvature and entropy

DOI10.4310/MRL.2000.V7.N4.A16zbMATH Open1010.53039arXivmath/0002188OpenAlexW2059315341MaRDI QIDQ1588366FDOQ1588366

Authors: Jimmy Petean, Gabriel P. Paternain 

Publication date: 14 May 2003

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We find obstructions to the existence of Einstein metrics of non-negative sectional curvature on a smooth closed simply connected manifold of any dimension. The results are achieved by combining the classical Morse theory of the loop space with a new upper bound for the topological entropy of the geodesic flow in terms of the curvature tensor.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0002188

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zbMATH Keywords

Einstein manifoldstopological entropynonnegative sectional curvatureformal Einstein manifoldMorse type inequalities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15)

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