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arxiv: 0912.5405 · v13 · submitted 2009-12-30 · 🧮 math.DG

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Complete 4-manifolds with uniformly positive isotropic curvature

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We prove the following result: Let $(X,g_0)$ be a complete, connected 4-manifold with uniformly positive isotropic curvature and with bounded geometry. Then there is a finite collection $\mathcal{F}$ of manifolds of the form $\mathbb{S}^3 \times \mathbb{R} /G$, where $G$ is a fixed point free discrete subgroup of the isometry group of the standard metric on $\mathbb{S}^3\times \mathbb{R}$, such that $X$ is diffeomorphic to a (possibly infinite) connected sum of copies of $\mathbb{S}^4,\mathbb{RP}^4$ and/or members of $\mathcal{F}$. This extends recent work of Chen-Tang-Zhu and Huang. We also extend the above result to the case of orbifolds. The proof uses Ricci flow with surgery on complete orbifolds.

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