Positive scalar curvature and the Dirac operator on complete Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1007/BF02953774zbMath0538.53047WikidataQ115391039 ScholiaQ115391039MaRDI QIDQ793362

H. Blaine jun. Lawson

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Publications Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=PMIHES_1983__58__83_0

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac operatorhyperbolic manifoldsectional curvaturepositive scalar curvaturevanishing theoremsminimal hypersurfaceshomology classesAtiyah- Singer index theoremenlargeable manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

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