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The classification of closed Einstein four-manifolds with positive sectional curvature

Theorem 1.1: a connected smooth closed Einstein four-manifold with strictly positive sectional curvature, with no orientability assumption, is after positive rescaling isometric to round S4S^4, Fubini-Study CP2\mathbb{CP}^2 or round RP4\mathbb{RP}^4. The core step is half-conformal flatness (W+≡0W^+\equiv0 or W−≡0W^-\equiv0) from a weighted Hessian estimate and moment balance of the two Weyl blocks. Companions: a closed Einstein four-manifold with Ric=3g\mathrm{Ric}=3g, K≥0K\ge0 and one zero-curvature plane has universal cover S2(1/3)×S2(1/3)S^2(1/\sqrt3)\times S^2(1/\sqrt3), giving the full nonnegative classification; and a simply connected closed four-manifold with K≥0K\ge0 and small scale-invariant L2L^2 trace-free Ricci energy is diffeomorphic to S4S^4, CP2\mathbb{CP}^2 or S2×S2S^2\times S^2. Not shown: anything in higher dimensions or for complete noncompact metrics.

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Theorem 1.1: a connected smooth closed Einstein four-manifold with strictly positive sectional curvature, with no orientability assumption, is after positive rescaling isometric to round S4S^4, Fubini-Study CP2\mathbb{CP}^2 or round RP4\mathbb{RP}^4. The core step is half-conformal flatness (W+≡0W^+\equiv0 or W−≡0W^-\equiv0) from a weighted Hessian estimate and moment balance of the two Weyl blocks. Companions: a closed Einstein four-manifold with Ric=3g\mathrm{Ric}=3g, K≥0K\ge0 and one zero-curvature plane has universal cover S2(1/3)×S2(1/3)S^2(1/\sqrt3)\times S^2(1/\sqrt3), giving the full nonnegative classification; and a simply connected closed four-manifold with K≥0K\ge0 and small scale-invariant L2L^2 trace-free Ricci energy is diffeomorphic to S4S^4, CP2\mathbb{CP}^2 or S2×S2S^2\times S^2. Not shown: anything in higher dimensions or for complete noncompact metrics. parent of this event

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