Einstein manifolds of non-negative sectional curvature and entropy

DOI10.4310/MRL.2000.V7.N4.A16MaRDI QIDQ1588366zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jimmy Petean, Gabriel P. Paternain

Publication date 14 May 2003

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein manifoldsformal Einstein manifoldMorse type inequalitiesnonnegative sectional curvaturetopological entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

Using essentially the topological entropy of the geodesic flow the authors provide estimates that lead to obstructions for the existence of Einstein manifolds of nonnegative sectional curvature. As a corollary of their main result they show that, if \(M\) is a formal, smooth, closed Einstein manifold of nonnegative sectional curvature then the sum of its Betti numbers \(B\) is \[ B\leq (1+ \exp(\pi\sqrt{n-1}(n- 2)/2))^n. \] Here ``formal means that there exists a morphism from the minimal model of \(M\) to \((H^*(M,\mathbb{Q}),0)\) that induces an isomorphism in cohomology. For example all compact Kähler manifolds and all manifolds of dimension \(\leq 6\) are formal. To prove their main result the authors strengthen in Theorem B an inequality by \textit{A. Manning} [Lect. Notes Math. 898, 243-249 (1981; Zbl 0489.58025)] relating the topological entropy of the geodesic flow and the maximum of the absolute value of the sectional curvature. Then they use Morse type inequalities for the space of paths on \(M\) and a result of \textit{I. K. Babenko} [Izv. Ross. Akad. Nauk., Ser. Mat. 61, No. 3, 57-74 (1997; Zbl 0904.58047); translation in Izv. Math. 61, No. 3, 517-535 (1997)] to obtain the result.

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