Canonical metrics on 3-manifolds and 4-manifolds

DOI10.4310/AJM.2006.V10.N1.A8zbMATH Open1246.53063arXivmath/0511034OpenAlexW1977098174MaRDI QIDQ2373597FDOQ2373597

Michael T. Anderson

Publication date: 13 July 2007

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

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.

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)

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