Geometric non-commutative geometry

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2020.08.001zbMATH Open1486.53035arXiv1909.00063OpenAlexW3098633386MaRDI QIDQ2238902FDOQ2238902

Authors: James L. Heitsch, Moulay-Tahar Benameur 

Publication date: 2 November 2021

Published in: Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In a recent paper, the authors proved that no spin foliation on a compact enlargeable manifold with Hausdorff homotopy graph admits a metric of positive scalar curvature on its leaves. This result extends groundbreaking results of Lichnerowicz, Gromov and Lawson, and Connes on the non-existence of metrics of positive scalar curvature. In this paper we review in more detail the material needed for the proof of our theorem and we extend our non-existence results to non-compact manifolds of bounded geometry. We also give a first obstruction result for the existence of metric with (not necessarily uniform) leafwise PSC in terms of the A-hat class in Haefliger cohomology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00063

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zbMATH Keywords

foliationspositive scalar curvatureenlargeability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Noncommutative global analysis, noncommutative residues (58J42) Positive curvature complex manifolds (32Q10)

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