On the geometry of asymptotically flat manifolds

DOI10.2140/GT.2021.25.2469zbMATH Open1480.53052arXiv1908.07248OpenAlexW2969300776WikidataQ125933702 ScholiaQ125933702MaRDI QIDQ1983191FDOQ1983191

Authors: X.-X. Chen, Yu Li 

Publication date: 16 September 2021

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

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 $mathbb{R}^4$ must be isometric to the Euclidean or the Taub-NUT metric, provided that the tangent cone at infinity is not $mathbbRimesmathbb{R}_{+}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.07248

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotically flatcollapsingtorus fiber bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

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