Positive scalar curvature and connected sums
Abstract
Let $N$ be a closed enlargeable manifold in the sense of Gromov-Lawson and $M$ a closed spin manifold of equal dimension, a famous theorem of Gromov-Lawson states that the connected sum $M\# N$ admits no metric of positive scalar curvature. We present a potential generalization of this result to the case where $M$ is nonspin. We use index theory for Dirac operators to prove our result.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- May 2017
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- arXiv:
- arXiv:1705.00553
- Bibcode:
- 2017arXiv170500553S
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Differential Geometry
- E-Print:
- 5 pages. Correct a mistake in the previous version. The result of the current version does not imply the original statement in the earlier version