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Highly connected manifolds with positive Ricci curvature

Charles P Boyer, Krzysztof Galicki

math.DGarXiv:math/0508189

Abstract

We 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 S2n-1 x S2n 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.

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