The space of positive Ricci curvature metrics on spin manifolds

Abstract

In this note we show that the space of all metrics of positive Ricci curvature on a spin manifold of dimension 4k-1 for k at least 2 has infinitely many path components provided that the manifold admits a very particular kind of metric.

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