Abstract:
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 “stability” condition. We develop some basic tools and obtain a rather complete picture in the case of surfaces.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 947923). C.L. was supported by an NSF grant (DMS-2202343).
Received:July 3, 2023; in final form January 31, 2024; Published online February 13, 2024
Citation:
Alessandro Carlotto, Chao Li, “A Note about Isotopy and Concordance of Positive Scalar Curvature Metrics on Compact Manifolds with Boundary”, SIGMA, 20 (2024), 014, 13 pp.