A survey of Einstein metrics on 4-manifolds

Abstract

We survey some aspects of the current state of research on Einstein metrics on compact 4-manifolds. A number of open problems are presented and discussed.

30pp, to appear in Handbook of Geometric Analysis. Final version has only minor changes from v1

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• Monopole classes and Einstein metrics
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