Première valeur propre du laplacien, volume conforme et chirurgies. (Q934652)

From the author's abstract: ``We define a new differential invariant of a compact manifold by \(V_{\mathcal M}(M)=\inf_{g}V_{c}(M,[ g])\), where \(V_{c}(M,[ g])\) is the conformal volume of \(M\) for the conformal class \([ g]\), and prove that it is uniformly bounded above. The main motivation is that this bound provides an upper bound of the Friedlander-Nadirashvili invariant defined by \(\inf_{g}\sup_{\tilde{g}\in[ g]}\lambda_{1}(M,\tilde{g})Vol(M,\tilde{g})^{\frac{2}{n}}\). The proof relies on the study of the behaviour of \(V_{\mathcal M}(M)\) when one performs surgeries on \(M\).''