Almost Einstein manifolds of negative Ricci curvature (Q2276776)

By the technique used to deform the metric in the direction of its Ricci curvature, first done by \textit{R. S. Hamilton} [Differ. Geom. 17, 255-306 (1982; Zbl 0504.53034)], the author proves the following pinching theorem for the Ricci curvature. Theorem: For any \(n\geq 3\) and \(\Lambda >0\), there exists an \(e(n,\Lambda)\), depending only on n and \(\Lambda\), such that if \((M^ n,g)\in M^-(m,\Lambda)\) and if its Ricci curvature satisfies \(\max_{SM} | n\rho /r-1| <\epsilon(n,\Lambda),\) then M admits an Einstein metric \(\bar g\) with \(\rho(\bar g)\equiv -1\), where \(M^-(n,\Lambda)\) denotes the set of all smooth compact Riemannian manifolds \((M^ n,g)\) satisfying) \(r<0\) and \(d^ 2 \max | K| \leq \Lambda^ 2\).