Monotonicity of the Yamabe invariant under connect sum over the boundary

DOI10.1007/S10455-008-9125-9MaRDI QIDQ1024789zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fernando Schwartz

Publication date 17 June 2009

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10455-008-9125-9

zbMATH Keywords

handlebodiesmanifold with boundarypositive scalar curvatureYamabe invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

Review text

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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