Positive scalar curvature on simply connected spin pseudomanifolds

DOI10.1142/S1793525321500333MaRDI QIDQ6044802zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. I. Botvinnik, Paolo Piazza, Jonathan M. Rosenberg

Publication date 22 May 2023

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04420

zbMATH Keywords

\(K\)-theorypositive scalar curvaturepseudomanifoldThom-Mather stratified space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Stratifications in topological manifolds (57N80) Stratified sets (58A35)

Abstract: Let $M_{S}igma$ be an $n$-dimensional Thom-Mather stratified space of depth $1$. We denote by $$ the singular locus and by $L$ the associated link. In this paper we study the problem of when such a space can be endowed with a wedge metric of positive scalar curvature. We relate this problem to recent work on index theory on stratified spaces, giving first an obstruction to the existence of such a metric in terms of a wedge $alpha$-class $alph{a}_w(M_{S}igma)inK{O}_n$. In order to establish a sufficient condition we need to assume additional structure: we assume that the link of $M_{S}igma$ is a homogeneous space of positive scalar curvature, $L=G/K$, where the semisimple compact Lie group $G$ acts transitively on $L$ by isometries. Examples of such manifolds include compact semisimple Lie groups and Riemannian symmetric spaces of compact type. Under these assumptions, when $M_{S}igma$ and $$ are spin, we reinterpret our obstruction in terms of two $alpha$-classes associated to the resolution of $M_{S}igma$, $M$, and to the singular locus $$. Finally, when $M_{S}igma$, $$, $L$, and $G$ are simply connected and $dimM$ is big enough, and when some other conditions on $L$ (satisfied in a large number of cases) hold, we establish the main result of this article, showing that the vanishing of these two $alpha$-classes is also sufficient for the existence of a well-adapted wedge metric of positive scalar curvature.

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