Type: Article
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Citations: 11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4310/ajm.2009.v13.n2.a5
The Ricci flow on a compact four-manifold preserves the condition of pointwise 1/4pinching of flag curvatures.Any compact Riemannian four-manifold with 1/4-pinched flag curvatures is either isometric to CP 2 or diffeomorphic to a space-form.