Metrics of positive scalar curvature and generalised Morse functions. I.

DOI10.1090/S0065-9266-10-00622-8zbMATH Open1251.53001arXiv0910.2114OpenAlexW2066011129MaRDI QIDQ3078439FDOQ3078439

Authors: Mark Walsh 

Publication date: 21 February 2011

Published in: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The surgery technique of Gromov and Lawson may be used to construct families of positive scalar curvature metrics which are parameterised by Morse functions. This has played an important role in the study of the space of metrics of positive scalar curvature on a smooth manifold and its corresponding moduli spaces. In this paper, we extend this technique to work for families of generalised Morse functions, i.e. smooth functions with both Morse and birth-death singularities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2114

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zbMATH Keywords

concordancecobordismisotopysurgeryMorse theorypositive scalar curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic topology (55-02)

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