On the topology of self-dual 4-manifolds
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- Published by American Mathematical Society (AMS) in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
- Vol. 98 (4) , 637-640
- https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9939-1986-0861766-2
Abstract
Obstructions are obtained for the problem of finding a Riemannian metric with self-dual conformal curvature and nonnegative scalar curvature on a given smooth compact -manifold. A list is given of those simply connected manifolds conceivably admitting such metrics.Keywords
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