Complete classification of compact four-manifolds with positive isotropic curvature

Chen, Bing-Long; Tang, Siu-Hung; Zhu, Xi-Ping

Complete classification of compact four-manifolds with positive isotropic curvature

Authors

Chen, Bing-Long

Tang, Siu-Hung

Zhu, Xi-Ping

Description

In this paper, we completely classify all compact 4-manifolds with positive isotropic curvature. We show that they are diffeomorphic to $\mathbb{S}^4,$ or $\mathbb{R}\mathbb{P}^4$ or quotients of $\mathbb{S}^3\times \mathbb{R}$ by a cocompact fixed point free subgroup of the isometry group of the standard metric of $\mathbb{S}^3\times \mathbb{R}$, or a connected sum of them.
33 pages