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A note on the Hitchin-Thorpe inequality and Ricci flow on 4-manifolds

Authors: Yuguang Zhang and Zhenlei Zhang
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 140 (2012), 1777-1783
MSC (2010): Primary 53C44
Posted: September 7, 2011
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Abstract: In this short paper, we prove a Hitchin-Thorpe type inequality for closed 4-manifolds with non-positive Yamabe invariant and admitting long time solutions of the normalized Ricci flow equation with bounded scalar curvature.

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