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Einstein manifolds of non-negative sectional curvature and entropy (2000)

Abstract
We find obstructions to the existence of Einstein metrics of non-negative sectional curvature on a smooth closed simply connected manifold of any dimension. The results are achieved by combining the classical Morse theory of the loop space with a new upper bound for the topological entropy of the geodesic flow in terms of the curvature tensor.. Comment: 13 pages

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Download http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0002188
Repository arXiv (United States)
Keywords Mathematics - Differential Geometry, Mathematics - Dynamical Systems, 53C25
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