Uniformization of four manifolds

1997/05/02 by Naichung Conan Leung, Leung, Naichung Conan
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Differential Geometry Research #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.dg-ga/9705001

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Abstract

We characteristize those Einstein four manifolds which are locally symmetric spaces of noncompact type. Namely they are four manifolds which admit solutions to the (non-Abelian) Seiberg Witten equations and satisty certain characterisitc number equality.

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