On the Betti and Tachibana Numbers of Compact Einstein Manifolds

Abstract

Throughout the history of the study of Einstein manifolds, researchers have sought relationships between the curvature and topology of such manifolds. In this paper, first, we prove that a compact Einstein manifold ( M , g ) with an Einstein constant α > 0 is a homological sphere when the minimum of its sectional curvatures > α / ( n + 2 ) ; in particular, ( M , g ) is a spherical space form when the minimum of its sectional curvatures > α / n . Second, we prove two propositions (similar to the above ones) for Tachibana numbers of a compact Einstein manifold with α < 0 .