2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/221821We prove the existence of Sasakian metrics with positive Ricci curvature on certain highly connected odd dimensional manifolds. In particular, we show that manifolds homeomorphic to the 2k-fold connected sum of S^{2n-1} x S^{2n} admit Sasakian metrics with positive Ricci curvature for all k. Furthermore, a formula for computing the diffeomorphism types is given and tables are presented for dimensions 7 and 11.This is the version published by Geometry & Topology on 29 November 2006Differential GeometryAlgebraic Topology53C25, 57R55text