Nonnegative scalar curvature and area decreasing maps on complete foliated manifolds

DOI10.1515/CRELLE-2022-0038MaRDI QIDQ2170258zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 30 August 2022

Published in Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03472

zbMATH Keywords

\(\Lambda^2\)-enlargeable metricsleafwise scalar curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12)

Abstract: Let $(M,g^{TM})$ be a noncompact complete Riemannian manifold of dimension $n$, and let $FsubseteqTM$ be an integrable subbundle of $TM$. Let $g^F=g^{TM}{|}_F$ be the restricted metric on $F$ and let $k^F$ be the associated leafwise scalar curvature. Let $f:Mo{S}^n(1)$ be a smooth area decreasing map along $F$, which is locally constant near infinity and of non-zero degree. We show that if $k^F>mrk(F)(mrk(F)-1)$ on the support of $mdf$, and either $TM$ or $F$ is spin, then $inf(k^F)<0$. As a consequence, we prove Gromov's sharp foliated $otime{s}_{v}arepsilon$-twisting conjecture. Using the same method, we also extend two famous non-existence results due to Gromov and Lawson about $Lambd{a}^2$-enlargeable metrics (and/or manifolds) to the foliated case.

Review text

The main result of the paper under review is the proof of Gromov's sharp foliated \(\otimes_{\epsilon}\) conjecture. This is achieved by generalising to the foliated case a rigidity theorem by Llarull. Namely the authors show that, given an area-decreasing map \(f\) to a sphere, if the leafwise scalar curvature is bounded below by \(rk(F)(rk(F)-1)\) (where \(rk(F)\) is the dimension of the leaves) on the support of \(df\), and either \(TM\) or \(F\) is spin, then the infimum of the leafwise scalar curvature is negative.

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