Computations of the Yamabe invariant

DOI10.4310/MRL.1998.V5.N6.A1zbMATH Open0974.53506arXivmath/9808053OpenAlexW2964135779MaRDI QIDQ1574682FDOQ1574682

Authors: Jimmy Petean 

Publication date: 13 August 2000

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a compact connected manifold M of dimension n greater than 3 and with no metric of positive scalar curvature, we prove that the Yamabe invariant is unchanged under surgery on spheres of dimension different from 1, n-2 and n-1. We use this result to give new computations of the invariant in dimension four and display new examples of 4-manifolds which do not admit Einstein metrics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9808053

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zbMATH Keywords

surgeryYamabe invariantEinstein metricpositive scalar curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Critical metrics (58E11)

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