Positive scalar curvature on foliations: the enlargeability

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-34953-0_22MaRDI QIDQ3300616zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Weiping Zhang

Publication date 29 July 2020

Published in Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04313

zbMATH Keywords

foliationpositive scalar curvatureenlargeabilityrelative index theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20)

Abstract: We generalize the famous result of Gromov and Lawson on the nonexistence of metric of positive scalar curvature on enlargeable manifolds to the case of foliations, without using index theorems on noncompact manifolds.

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