Positive scalar curvature on foliations

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2017.185.3.9zbMATH Open1404.53038arXiv1508.04503OpenAlexW2962689932MaRDI QIDQ2358749FDOQ2358749

Authors: Weiping Zhang 

Publication date: 16 June 2017

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We generalize classical theorems due to Lichnerowicz and Hitchin on the existence of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature on spin manifolds to the case of foliated spin manifolds. As a consequence, we show that there is no foliation of positive leafwise scalar curvature on any torus, which generalizes the famous theorem of Schoen-Yau and Gromov-Lawson on the non-existence of metrics of positive scalar curvature on torus to the case of foliations. Moreover, our method, which is partly inspired by the analytic localization techniques of Bismut-Lebeau, also applies to give a new proof of the celebrated Connes vanishing theorem without using noncommutative geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04503

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zbMATH Keywords

scalar curvaturefoliationConnes fibrationsub-Dirac operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12)

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