Harmonic 2-forms and positively curved 4-manifolds

DOI10.1007/S11425-019-1641-9MaRDI QIDQ2037809zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jianming Wan, Kefeng Liu

Publication date 8 July 2021

Published in Science China. Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00110

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic formspositive curvatureHopf conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

Abstract: We prove that if a compact Riemannian 4-manifold with positive sectional curvature satisfies a Kato type inequality, then it is definite. We also discuss some new insights for compact Riemannian 4-manifolds of positive sectional curvature.

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