A counterexample to the (unstable) Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture

DOI10.1016/S0040-9383(97)00082-7zbMATH Open0976.53052arXivmath/0403063WikidataQ123011755 ScholiaQ123011755MaRDI QIDQ1292639FDOQ1292639

Authors: Thomas Schick 

Publication date: 24 June 1999

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Doing surgery on the 5-torus, we construct a 5-dimensional closed spin-manifold M with $p{i}_1(M)=Z^{4}timesZ/3$, so that the index invariant in the KO-theory of the reduced $C^{\ast }$-algebra of $p{i}_1(M)$ is zero. Then we use the theory of minimal surfaces of Schoen/Yau to show that this manifolds cannot carry a metric of positive scalar curvature. The existence of such a metric is predicted by the (unstable) Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403063

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zbMATH Keywords

surgerypositive scalar curvatureGromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjectureclosed spin-manifoldindex invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

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