Canonical metrics on 3-manifolds and 4-manifolds

DOI10.4310/AJM.2006.V10.N1.A8MaRDI QIDQ2373597zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael T. Anderson

Publication date 13 July 2007

Published in The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511034

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein metricscurvature functionalsgeometrization conjectureself-dual metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Abstract: We prove certain weak or idealized existence results for minimizers of the natural quadratic curvature functionals on the space of metrics on 4-manifolds. Overall, we try to exhibit the relations with the picture in 3-dimensions provided by Thurston geometrization. The existence results apply in particular to the structure of the moduli spaces of such metrics, and as such generalize most of the known results for moduli of Einstein metrics.

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