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Existence and non-existence of homogeneous Einstein metrics

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  1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Mc Master University, L8S 4K1, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    McKenzie Y. Wang

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Wolfgang Ziller

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The first author acknowledges partial support from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley and from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The second author is partially supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and a grant from the National Science Foundation

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Wang, M.Y., Ziller, W. Existence and non-existence of homogeneous Einstein metrics. Invent Math 84, 177–194 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01388738

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