Some examples of vanishing Yamabe invariant and minimal volume, and collapsing of inequivalent smoothings and PL-structures

DOI10.1007/S10455-015-9486-9zbMATH Open1344.53032arXiv1502.03731OpenAlexW1821620098MaRDI QIDQ258029FDOQ258029

Authors: Rafael Torres 

Publication date: 17 March 2016

Published in: Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this short note, exploits of constructions of $mathcalF$-structures coupled with technology developed by Cheeger-Gromov and Paternain-Petean are seen to yield a procedure to compute minimal entropy, minimal volume, Yamabe invariant and to study collapsing with bounded sectional curvature on inequivalent smooth structures and inequivalent PL-structures within a fixed homeomorphism class. We compute these fundamental Riemannian invariants for every high-dimensional smooth manifold on the homeomorphism class of any smooth manifold that admits a Riemannian metric of zero sectional curvature. This includes all exotic and all fake tori of dimension greater than four. We observe that the minimal volume is not an invariant of the smooth structures, yet the Yamabe invariant does discern the standard smooth structure from all the others. We also observe that the fundamental group places no restriction on the vanishing of the minimal volume and collapse with bounded sectional curvature for high-dimensional manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03731

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zbMATH Keywords

homeomorphism classhomotopy Euclidean spaceinequivalent smooth structureminimal entropyminimal volumesmooth structureYamabe invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20)

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