Concordance and isotopy of metrics with positive scalar curvature

DOI10.1007/S00039-013-0238-3zbMATH Open1296.53062OpenAlexW2963687289MaRDI QIDQ359549FDOQ359549

Authors B. I. Botvinnik 

Publication date 12 August 2013

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4879

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian metricpositive scalar curvatureconcordant metricsisotopic metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

Abstract: Two positive scalar curvature metrics $g_0$, $g_1$ on a manifold $M$ are psc-isotopic if they are homotopic through metrics of positive scalar curvature. It is well known that if two metrics $g_0$, $g_1$ of positive scalar curvature on a closed compact manifold $M$ are psc-isotopic, then they are psc-concordant: i.e., there exists a metric $$ of positive scalar curvature on the cylinder $MimesI$ which extends the metrics $g_0$ on $Mimes0$ and $g_1$ on $Mimes1$ and is a product metric near the boundary. The main result of the paper is that if psc-metrics $g_0$, $g_1$ on $M$ are psc-concordant, then there exists a diffeomorphism $Phi:MimesIoMimesI$ with $Phi{|}_{Mimes0}=Id$ (a pseudo-isotopy) such that the metrics $g_0$ and $(Phi{|}_{Mimes1}{)}^{\ast }{g}_1$ are psc-isotopic. In particular, for a simply connected manifold $M$ with $dimMgeq5$, psc-metrics $g_0$, $g_1$ are psc-isotopic if and only if they are psc-concordant. To prove these results, we employ a combination of relevant methods: surgery tools related to Gromov-Lawson construction, classic results on isotopy and pseudo-isotopy of diffeomorphisms, standard geometric analysis related to the conformal Laplacian, and the Ricci flow.

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