OpenAI · 348-01 · 2026-10-04 · Differential geometry

Zero-Plane Rigidity for Einstein Four-Manifolds

preprints/Zero-Plane-Rigidity-for-Einstein-Four-Manifolds-October-4-2026

Family 348. Nonnegatively curved Einstein four-manifolds and a topological gap.

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Read against the standing problems

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Classifies closed connected Einstein four-manifolds with positive Einstein constant and nonnegative sectional curvature: up to scaling, their universal Riemannian covers are the round $S^{4}$ , Fubini–Study $CP^{2}$ , or a product of equal round two-spheres. A closed simply connected nonnegatively curved four-manifold is diffeomorphic to one of these whenever the scale-invariant $L^{2}$ norm of its trace-free Ricci curvature lies below a universal positive constant.

We prove that a closed Einstein four-manifold with positive Einstein constant, nonnegative sectional curvature, and a zero-curvature plane has universal Riemannian cover isometric to a product of two round two-spheres. Under the normalization $Ric = 3 g$ , both spheres have radius $1/ 3$ . The proof extends coupled estimates for the two Weyl curvature blocks to the boundary of the sectional-curvature cone and determines their equality case.

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