Harnack Inequalities for Critical 4-manifolds with a Ricci Curvature Bound

Abstract

We study critical Riemannian 4-manifolds with a lower bound on Ricci curvature, but no a priori analytic constraints such as on Sobolev constants. We derive elliptic-type estimates for the local curvature radius, which itself controls sectional curvature. The primary method is construction of blow-ups of degenerating metrics, followed by a geometric/topological triviality result from a previous work.

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