Scalar curvature, covering spaces, and Seiberg-Witten theory

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Authors Claude Lebrun

Publication date 24 September 2003

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0110329, https://eudml.org/doc/123785, http://www.emis.de/journals/NYJM/j/2003/9-7nf.htm

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zbMATH Keywords

scalar curvatureYamabe invariantSeiberg-Witten invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Critical metrics (58E11) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

Abstract: The Yamabe invariant Y(M) of a smooth compact manifold is roughly the supremum of the scalar curvatures of unit-volume constant-scalar-curvature Riemannian metrics g on M. (To be precise, one only considers those constant-scalar-curvature metrics which are Yamabe minimizers, but this technicality does not, e.g. affect the sign of the answer.) In this article, it is shown that many 4-manifolds M with Y(M) < 0 have have finite covering spaces ilde{M} with Y( ilde{M}) > 0.

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