The space of positive scalar curvature metrics on a manifold with boundary

zbMATH Open1453.58005arXiv1411.2423MaRDI QIDQ2006010FDOQ2006010

Authors: Mark Walsh 

Publication date: 8 October 2020

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

Abstract: We study the space of Riemannian metrics with positive scalar curvature on a compact manifold with boundary. These metrics extend a fixed boundary metric and take a product structure on a collar neighbourhood of the boundary. We show that the weak homotopy type of this space is preserved by certain surgeries on the boundary in co-dimension at least three. Thus, there is a weak homotopy equivalence between the space of such metrics on a simply connected spin manifold $W$, of dimension $ngeq6$ and with simply connected boundary, and the corresponding space of metrics of positive scalar curvature on the standard disk $D^n$. Indeed, for certain boundary metrics, this space is weakly homotopy equivalent to the space of all metrics of positive scalar curvature on the standard sphere $S^n$. Finally, we prove analogous results for the more general space where the boundary metric is left unfixed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2423

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zbMATH Keywords

manifold with boundarysurgeryspinbordismweak homotopy equivalenceGromov-Lawson constructionspace of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Homotopy equivalences in algebraic topology (55P10) Homotopy and topological questions for infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B05)

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