Low-dimensional surgery and the Yamabe invariant (Q2339649)

In the previous article [J. Differ. Geom. 94, No. 1, 1--58 (2013; Zbl 1269.53037)], the authors proved that if a compact manifold \(N\) is obtained from a compact \(n\)-dimensional manifold \(M\) by a \(k\)-dimensional surgery, \(k\leq n-3\), then their Yamabe invariants \(\sigma(N)\) and \(\sigma(M)\) satisfy \[ \sigma(N)\geq \min(\Lambda_{n,k},\sigma(M)), \] where \(\Lambda_{n,k}>0\) depends only on \(n\) and \(k\). In the present paper, they prove lower bounds for \(\Lambda_{n,k}\) for some low values of \(k\) and \(n\). Their method uses lower bounds on the conformal Yamabe constant \(\mu(\mathbb R^{k+1}\times\mathbb S^{n-k-1})\) given in [\textit{J. Petean} and \textit{J. M. Ruiz}, Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 40, No. 2, 177--189 (2011; Zbl 1223.53033); Differ. Geom. Appl. 31, No. 2, 308--319 (2013; Zbl 1280.53042)]. As a consequence they obtain, among other things, that \[ 45.1<\sigma(M)\leq \mu(S^5)<78.998 \qquad (\text{resp. } 49.9<\sigma(M)\leq \mu(S^6)<96.30) \] for any 5-dimensional (resp. \(6\)-dimensional) compact simply connected manifold \(M\).