Geometric non-commutative geometry

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2020.08.001MaRDI QIDQ2238902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James L. Heitsch, Moulay-Tahar Benameur

Publication date 2 November 2021

Published in Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00063

zbMATH Keywords

enlargeabilityfoliationspositive scalar curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Positive curvature complex manifolds (32Q10) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Noncommutative global analysis, noncommutative residues (58J42)

Abstract: In a recent paper, the authors proved that no spin foliation on a compact enlargeable manifold with Hausdorff homotopy graph admits a metric of positive scalar curvature on its leaves. This result extends groundbreaking results of Lichnerowicz, Gromov and Lawson, and Connes on the non-existence of metrics of positive scalar curvature. In this paper we review in more detail the material needed for the proof of our theorem and we extend our non-existence results to non-compact manifolds of bounded geometry. We also give a first obstruction result for the existence of metric with (not necessarily uniform) leafwise PSC in terms of the A-hat class in Haefliger cohomology.

Review text

In a preceeding paper, the authors proved that no spin foliation on a compact enlargeable manifold with Hausdorff homotopy graph admits a metric of positive scalar curvature on its leaves. This result extends the classical results by Lichnerowicz, Gromov and Lawson, and by Connes on the non-existence of metrics of positive scalar curvature. Later the Hausdorff and compactnes assumptions were relaxed by Zhang and Su. This paper reviews the tools needed to prove these results, extends the non-existence results to noncompact manifolds of bounded geometry, and gives a first obstruction result for the existence of metrics with leafwise positive scalar curvature in terms of the A-hat class in Haefliger cohomology.

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