The space of metrics of positive scalar curvature

DOI10.1007/S10240-014-0062-9zbMATH Open1321.58008arXiv1212.0068OpenAlexW3105529335WikidataQ59700097 ScholiaQ59700097MaRDI QIDQ483510FDOQ483510

Authors: Bernhard Hanke, Thomas Schick, Wolfgang Steimle 

Publication date: 17 December 2014

Published in: Publications Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the topology of the space of positive scalar curvature metrics on high dimensional spheres and other spin manifolds. Our main result provides elements of infinite order in higher homotopy and homology groups of these spaces, which, in contrast to previous approaches, are of infinite order and survive in the (observer) moduli space of such metrics. Along the way we construct smooth fiber bundles over spheres whose total spaces have non-vanishing A-hat-genera, thus establishing the non-multiplicativity of the A-hat-genus in fibre bundles with simply connected base.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0068

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zbMATH Keywords

positive scalar curvaturemoduli space of metricsa hat genus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Homotopy and topological questions for infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B05) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65)

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