Examples of compact Einstein four-manifolds with negative curvature

DOI10.1090/JAMS/944zbMATH Open1467.53055arXiv1802.00608OpenAlexW2990807391WikidataQ126775473 ScholiaQ126775473MaRDI QIDQ5131069FDOQ5131069

Joel Fine, Bruno Premoselli

Publication date: 2 November 2020

Published in: Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give new examples of compact, negatively curved Einstein manifolds of dimension $4$. These are seemingly the first such examples which are not locally homogeneous. Our metrics are carried by a sequence of 4-manifolds $(X_k)$ previously considered by Gromov and Thurston. The construction begins with a certain sequence $(M_k)$ of hyperbolic 4-manifolds, each containing a totally geodesic surface $Sigm{a}_k$ which is nullhomologous and whose normal injectivity radius tends to infinity with $k$. For a fixed choice of natural number $l$, we consider the $l$-fold cover $X_{k}o{M}_k$ branched along $Sigm{a}_k$. We prove that for any choice of $l$ and all large enough $k$ (depending on $l$), $X_k$ carries an Einstein metric of negative sectional curvature. The first step in the proof is to find an approximate Einstein metric on $X_k$, which is done by interpolating between a model Einstein metric near the branch locus and the pull-back of the hyperbolic metric from $M_k$. The second step in the proof is to perturb this to a genuine solution to Einstein's equations, by a parameter dependent version of the inverse function theorem. The analysis relies on a delicate bootstrap procedure based on $L^2$ coercivity estimates.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.00608

zbMATH Keywords

negative curvaturehomogeneous Einstein metricsEinstein 4-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

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