Compact manifolds with positive _2-curvature

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2014.09.002zbMATH Open1305.53043arXiv1305.5313OpenAlexW2046469610WikidataQ115356147 ScholiaQ115356147MaRDI QIDQ472235FDOQ472235

Authors: B. I. Botvinnik, Mohammed-Larbi Labbi 

Publication date: 19 November 2014

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Schouten tensor $A$ of a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ provides important scalar curvature invariants $sigm{a}_k$, that are the symmetric functions on the eigenvalues of $A$, where, in particular, $sigm{a}_1$ coincides with the standard scalar curvature $Scal(g)$. Our goal here is to study compact manifolds with positive $Gamm{a}_2$-curvature, i.e., when $sigm{a}_1(g)>0$ and $sigm{a}_2(g)>0$. In particular, we prove that a 3-connected non-string manifold $M$ admits a positive$Gamm{a}_2$-curvature metric if and only if it admits a positive scalar curvature metric. Also we show that any finitely presented group $pi$ can always be realised as the fundamental group of a closed manifold of positive $Gamm{a}_2$-curvature and of arbitrary dimension greater than or equal to six.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.5313

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zbMATH Keywords

spin manifoldsSchouten tensorWitten genus\(\varGamma_2\)-curvatureGromov-Lawson surgerystring manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

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