Abstract
It is shown that there are infinitely many compact simply con- nected smooth 4-manifolds which do not admit Einstein metrics, but nev- ertheless satisfy the strict Hitchin-Thorpe inequality 2 !> 3| |. The exam- ples in question arise as non-minimal complex algebraic surfaces of general type, and the method of proof stems from Seiberg-Witten theory.
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