Connected sums with H P^n or CaP^2 and the Yamabe invariant

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2018.04.004MaRDI QIDQ1636014zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Chanyoung Sung

Publication date 1 June 2018

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2379

zbMATH Keywords

Cayley planegeneralized connected sumquaternionic projective spaceYamabe invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

Abstract: Let $M$ be a smooth closed $4k$-manifold whose Yamabe invariant $Y(M)$ is nonpositive. We show that ${\displaystyle }$Y(Msharp l Bbb HP^ksharp m �ar{Bbb HP^k})=Y(M),${\displaystyle }$ where $l,m$ are nonnegative integers, and $BbbH{P}^k$ is the quaternionic projective space. When $k=4$, we also have ${\displaystyle }$Y(Msharp l CaP^2sharp m �ar{CaP^2})=Y(M),${\displaystyle }$ where $Ca{P}^2$ is the Cayley plane.

Review text

The Yamabe invariant of a smooth closed manifold \(M\) is a topological invariant defined by taking the supremum of the scalar curvatures of the conformal classes of certain Riemannian metrics on \(M\), named Yamabe metrics, introduced in connection with the solution of the famous Yamabe problem; cf. [\textit{J. M. Lee} and \textit{T. H. Parker}, Bull. Am. Math. Soc., New Ser. 17, 37--91 (1987; Zbl 0633.53062)]. The Yamabe invariant depends only on the smooth structure of the manifold. In the main result of this paper it is proved that under certain conditions the Yamabe invariant of a smooth closed manifold \(M\) of dimension \(4k+k'\), in which a smooth closed manifold \(F\) of dimension \(k'\) is embedded with trivial normal bundle, remains unchanged under formation of connected sum with the total space \(\mathbb{H}P^k \tilde{\times} F\) in a smooth fiber bundle over the quaternionic projective space \(\mathbb{H}P^k\) and fiber \(F\). Likewise for the Cayley plane \(CaP^2\) when \(k=4\). The results are used to produce nice examples of higher-dimensional manifolds with nonpositive Yamabe invariants.

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