Monotonicity of the Yamabe invariant under connect sum over the boundary (Q1024789)

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    Monotonicity of the Yamabe invariant under connect sum over the boundary
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5566009

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      Monotonicity of the Yamabe invariant under connect sum over the boundary (English)
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      17 June 2009
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      It is proved that the Yamabe invariant of manifolds with boundary satisfies a monotonicity property with respect to connected sums along the boundary, similar to the one in the closed case. As a consequence it is deduced that handlebodies have maximal invariant.
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      manifold with boundary
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      positive scalar curvature
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      Yamabe invariant
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      handlebodies
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