A ``stable version of the Gromov-Lawson conjecture

zbMATH Open0818.53057arXivdg-ga/9407002MaRDI QIDQ4327014FDOQ4327014

Authors: Stephan Stolz, Jonathan M. Rosenberg 

Publication date: 24 August 1995

Abstract: We discuss a conjecture of Gromov and Lawson, later modified by Rosenberg, concerning the existence of metrics of positive scalar curvature. It says that a closed spin manifold $M$ of dimension $nge5$ has such a metric if and only if the index of a suitable ``Dirac" operator in $K{O}_n(C^{\ast }(p{i}_1(M)))$, the real $K$-theory of the group $C^{\ast }$-algebra of the fundamental group of $M$, vanishes. It is known that the vanishing of the index is necessary for existence of a positive scalar curvature metric on $M$, but this is known to be a sufficient condition only if $p{i}_1(M)$ is the trivial group, $BbbZ/2$, an odd order cyclic group, or one of a fairly small class of torsion-free groups. par We note that the groups $K{O}_n(C^{\ast }(pi))$ are periodic in $n$ with period $8$, whereas there is no obvious periodicity in the original geometric problem. This leads us to introduce a ``stable version of the Gromov-Lawson conjecture, which makes the weaker statement that the product of $M$ with enough copies of the ``Bott manifold" $B$ has a positive scalar curvature metric if and only if the index of the Dirac operator on $M$ vanishes. (Here $B$ is a simply connected $8$-manifold which represents the periodicity element in $K{O}_8(pt)$.) We prove the stable Gromov-Lawson conjecture for all spin manifolds with finite fundamental group and for many spin manifolds with infinite fundamental group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9407002

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupspin manifoldpositive scalar curvature metricsstable Gromov-Lawson conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

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