Curvature, cones and characteristic numbers

DOI10.1017/S0305004113000169zbMath1273.53041arXiv1203.6389MaRDI QIDQ2841495

Claude LeBrun, Michael F. Atiyah

Publication date: 26 July 2013

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6389

zbMATH Keywords

4-manifoldsgravitational instantonsGauss-Bonnet formulasignature formulaedge-cone metricsEinstein metrics with singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

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