Ricci-positive metrics on connected sums of projective spaces

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Abstract: It is a well known result of Gromov that all manifolds of a given dimension with positive sectional curvature are subject to a universal bound on the sum of their Betti numbers. On the other hand, there is no such bound for manifolds with positive Ricci curvature: indeed, Perelman constructed positive Ricci metrics on arbitrary connected sums of complex projective planes. In this paper, we revisit and extend Perelman's techniques to construct positive Ricci metrics on arbitrary connected sums of complex, quaternionic, and octonionic projective spaces in every dimension.


The proof of the fact that the connected sum of arbitrarily many copies of $\mathbb{C}P^2$ can be endowed with a Ricci-positive metric [\textit{G. Perelman}, Math. Sci. Res. Inst. Publ. 30, 157--163 (1997; Zbl 0890.53038)] relies in a key way on the construction of a ``core metric on $\mathbb{C}P^2 \setminus D^4$ with a round boundary having positive principal curvatures. This construction uses the Lie group structure on $S^3$. \par The present paper generalizes the result to projective spaces in every dimension over the complex, quaternionic and octonionic numbers. In place of the $S^3$-invariant metric, ``doubly warped Riemannian submersion metrics are used, which coincide in the case of $\mathbb{C}P^2$ with the metric constructed by Perelman. The construction permits taking connected sums of different types of projective spaces. \par It is also found that a single real projective space can be added to the connected sum or that one can take the product of each summand with a sphere.











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