In this note, we construct new examples of Lorentzian Sasaki-Einstein (LSE) metrics on Smale manifolds
![$M.$](img3.png)
It has already been established by the author that such metrics exist on the so-called torsion
free Smale manifolds, i.e. the
![$k$](img4.png)
-fold connected sum of
![$S^{2}\times S^{3}$](img5.png)
for all
![$k.$](img6.png)
Now, we show that
LSE metrics exist on Smale manifolds for which
![$H_{2}(M,\mathbb{Z})_{tor}$](img7.png)
is nontrivial.
In particular, we show that most simply-connected positive Sasakian rational homology
![$5$](img8.png)
-spheres are
also negative Sasakian (hence LSE).
Moreover, we show that for each pair of positive integers
![$(n,s)$](img9.png)
with
![$n,s >1$](img10.png)
, there exists a Lorentzian Sasaki-Einstein Smale manifold
![$M$](img11.png)
such that
![$H_{2}(M,{\mathbb{Z}})_{tors}=(\mathbb{Z}/n)^{2s}$](img12.png)
. Finally, we are able to construct
so-called mixed Smale manifolds (connect sum of torsion free Smale manifolds with rational homology spheres) which admit LSE metrics and have arbitrary second Betti number. This gives infinitely many examples which do not admit positive Sasakian structures. These results partially address open problems
formulated by C.Boyer and K.Galicki.