Nonnegative scalar curvature and area decreasing maps on complete foliated manifolds

Abstract: Let

(M, g^{T M})

be a noncompact complete Riemannian manifold of dimension

n

, and let

F s u b s e t e q T M

be an integrable subbundle of

T M

. Let

g^{F} = g^{T M} |_{F}

be the restricted metric on

F

and let

k^{F}

be the associated leafwise scalar curvature. Let

f : M o 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} > m r k (F) (m r k (F) - 1)

on the support of

m d f

, and either

T M

or

F

is spin, then

i n f (k^{F}) < 0

. As a consequence, we prove Gromov's sharp foliated

o t i m e s_{v} a r e p s i l o n

-twisting conjecture. Using the same method, we also extend two famous non-existence results due to Gromov and Lawson about

L a m b d a^{2}

-enlargeable metrics (and/or manifolds) to the foliated case.

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