A Note about Isotopy and Concordance of Positive Scalar Curvature Metrics on Compact Manifolds with Boundary

• Veröffentlicht in: Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
• Datum: 2024
• Hauptverfasser: Carlotto, Alessandro, Li, Chao
• Format: Artikel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: Інститут математики НАН України 2024
• Online Zugang: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/212109
• Назва журналу: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Zitieren: A Note about Isotopy and Concordance of Positive Scalar Curvature Metrics on Compact Manifolds with Boundary. Alessandro Carlotto and Chao Li. SIGMA 20 (2024), 014, 13 pages

We study notions of isotopy and concordance for Riemannian metrics on manifolds with boundary and, in particular, we introduce two variants of the concept of minimal concordance, the weaker one naturally arising when considering certain spaces of metrics defined by a suitable spectral ''st...