Bundles with Non-multiplicative Â-Genus and Spaces of Metrics with Lower Curvature Bounds

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNAA361MaRDI QIDQ5082285zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Georg Frenck, Jens Reinhold

Publication date 16 June 2022

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04588

zbMATH Keywords

genusspace of Riemannian metricshomotopy groupspin-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22) Infinite loop spaces (55P47)

Abstract: We construct smooth bundles with base and fiber products of two spheres whose total spaces have non-vanishing $hatA$-genus. We then use these bundles to locate non-trivial rational homotopy groups of spaces of Riemannian metrics with lower curvature bounds for all Spin-manifolds of dimension six or at least ten which admit such a metric and are a connected sum of some manifold and $S^{n}imes{S}^n$ or $S^{n}imes{S}^{n+1}$, respectively. We also construct manifolds $M$ whose spaces of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature have homotopy groups that contain elements of infinite order which lie in the image of the orbit map induced by the push-forward action of the diffeomorphism group of $M$.

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