Classifying sufficiently connected PSC manifolds in 4 and 5 dimensions (Q6157240): Difference between revisions

The authors show that if \(M^n\) is a closed smooth manifold of dimension \(4\) or \(5\) admitting a metric of positive scalar curvature and satisfying some topological conditions on the homotopy groups, then a finite cover of \(M\) is homotopy equivalent to \(S^n\) or to a connected sum of \( S^1\times S^n\)'s. They also prove a more general result by assuming the existence of a non-zero degree map \(f:M\to X\) where \(M\) is a closed manifold with metric of positive scalar curvature and \(X\) is of dimension \(4\) or \(5\) satisfying topological conditions.