Estimates for Minimal Volume and Minimal Curvature on 4-dimensional compact manifolds

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Authors: E. Costa, R. Diógenes, Ernani jun. Ribeiro 

Publication date: 30 July 2014

Abstract: In a remarkable article published in 1982, M. Gromov introduced the concept of minimal volume, namely, the minimal volume of a manifold $M^n$ is defined to be the greatest lower bound of the total volumes of $M^n$ with respect to complete Riemannian metrics whose sectional curvature is bounded above in absolute value by 1. While the minimal curvature, introduced by G. Yun in 1996, is the smallest pinching of the sectional curvature among metrics of volume 1. The goal of this article is to provide estimates to minimal volume and minimal curvature on 4-dimensional compact manifolds involving some differential and topological invariants. Among these ones, we get some sharp estimates for minimal curvature.

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