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arxiv: math/0311293 · v1 · submitted 2003-11-17 · 🧮 math.DG · hep-th· math.AG

Einstein Metrics on Exotic Spheres in Dimensions 7, 11, and 15

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keywords spheresdimensionmetricssasakian-einsteinadmiteinsteinhomotopyproved
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In a recent article the first three authors proved that in dimension $4m+1$ all homotopy spheres that bound parallelizable manifolds admit Einstein metrics of positive scalar curvature which, in fact, are Sasakian-Einstein. They also conjectured that all such homotopy spheres in dimension $4m-1, m\geq2$ admit Sasakian-Einstein metrics \cite{BGK}, and proved this for the simplest case, namely dimension $7.$ In this paper we describe computer programs that show that this conjecture is also true for 11-spheres and 15-spheres. Moreover, a program is given that determines the partition of the 8610 deformation classes of Sasakian-Einstein metrics into the 28 distinct oriented diffomorphism types in dimension $7.$

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