Torsion Obstructions to Positive Scalar Curvature

We study obstructions to the existence of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature on closed smooth manifolds arising from torsion classes in the integral homology of their fundamental groups. As an application, we construct new examples of manifolds that do not admit positive scalar curvatur...

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Veröffentlicht in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Datum:2024
Hauptverfasser: Gromov, Misha, Hanke, Bernhard
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Torsion Obstructions to Positive Scalar Curvature. Misha Gromov and Bernhard Hanke. SIGMA 20 (2024), 069, 22 pages
1815-0659
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 53C21; 53C23; 20J06; 53C12; 55N10
arXiv:2112.04825
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/212351
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2024.069
We study obstructions to the existence of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature on closed smooth manifolds arising from torsion classes in the integral homology of their fundamental groups. As an application, we construct new examples of manifolds that do not admit positive scalar curvature metrics, but whose Cartesian products admit such metrics.
This paper is the result of conversations in New York in the fall of 2018 and 2022. B.H. acknowledges support from NYU, the IAS Princeton, and the DFG-funded Special Priority Program 2026 Geometry at Infinity. We are grateful to the referees for their many useful comments, which helped to improve the manuscript.
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Інститут математики НАН України
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Torsion Obstructions to Positive Scalar Curvature
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title Torsion Obstructions to Positive Scalar Curvature
title_full Torsion Obstructions to Positive Scalar Curvature
title_fullStr Torsion Obstructions to Positive Scalar Curvature
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title_short Torsion Obstructions to Positive Scalar Curvature
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