Doubly warped product Einstein metrics on spheres

Abstract

We present a simple computer-assisted procedure to construct $SO(d_1+1)\times SO(d_2+1)$-invariant cohomogeneity one Einstein metrics, and use it to recover known Einstein metrics on $S^{10}$ and $S^{12}$, as well as find new ones on $S^{11}$, $S^{12}$, $S^{13}$ and $S^7\times S^3$.