The space of metrics of positive scalar curvature

DOI10.1007/S10240-014-0062-9MaRDI QIDQ483510zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Bernhard Hanke, Thomas Schick, Wolfgang Steimle

Publication date 17 December 2014

Published in Publications Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

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)

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.

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