On the geometry of asymptotically flat manifolds

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Publication:1983191




Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the geometry of asymptotically flat manifolds with controlled holonomy. We show that any end of such manifold admits a torus fibration over an ALE end. In addition, we prove a Hitchin-Thorpe inequality for oriented Ricci-flat 4-manifolds with curvature decay and controlled holonomy. As an application, we show that any complete asymptotically flat Ricci-flat metric on a 4-manifold which is homeomorphic to mathbbR4 must be isometric to the Euclidean or the Taub-NUT metric, provided that the tangent cone at infinity is not mathbbRimesmathbbR+.



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