Boundary amenability of groups and positive scalar curvature

DOI10.1023/A:1007896016682MaRDI QIDQ1806341zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jerome Kaminker, Guoliang Yu

Publication date 26 June 2000

Published in \(K\)-Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1007896016682

zbMATH Keywords

boundary amenable groupfundamental grouppositive scalar curvaturespin manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15)

Review text

A countable discrete group \(\Gamma\) is called boundary amenable iff there exists a metrizable compactification \(\Gamma\) satisfying (1) the translation action of \(\Gamma\) on itself extends to \(\Gamma\), and (2) \(\Gamma\) acts amenably on \(\Gamma\). The class of boundary amenable groups is closed under semi-direct product. The Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture for an aspherical manifold with boundary amenable fundamental group is proved: Theorem 3.1. Let \(\Gamma\) be a boundary amenable, finitely presented group. Let \(M\) be a compact aspherical spin manifold with \(\pi(M)= \Gamma\). Then, \(M\) does not admit a metric of positive scalar curvature.

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