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Torsion Obstructions to Positive Scalar Curvature
Misha Gromovab, Bernhard Hankec a Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,
New York, NY 10012-1185, USA
b Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, 91893 Bures-sur-Yvette, France
c Institut für Mathematik, University of Augsburg, 86135 Augsburg, Germany
Abstract:
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 which do not admit positive scalar curvature metrics, but whose Cartesian products admit such metrics.
Keywords:
positive scalar curvature, toral manifold, enlargeability, $\mu$-bubble; group homology, Riemannian foliation, band width inequality.
Received: November 7, 2023; in final form July 17, 2024; Published online July 30, 2024
Citation:
Misha Gromov, Bernhard Hanke, “Torsion Obstructions to Positive Scalar Curvature”, SIGMA, 20 (2024), 069, 22 pp.
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