The Ricci flow on a compact four-manifold preserves the condition of pointwise 1/4pinching of flag curvatures. Any compact Riemannian four-manifold with 1/4-pinched flag curvatures is either isometric to CP 2 or diffeomorphic to a space-form.
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Andrews et al. (2009) studied this question.