A generalization of Geroch's conjecture

DOI10.1002/CPA.22137MaRDI QIDQ6180713zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Simon Brendle, Sven Hirsch, Florian Johne

Publication date 2 January 2024

Published in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08617

zbMATH Keywords

intermediate Ricci curvatureweighted slicing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

Abstract: The Theorem of Bonnet--Myers implies that manifolds with topology $M^{n-1}imesmathbb{S}^1$ do not admit a metric of positive Ricci curvature, while the resolution of Geroch's conjecture implies that the torus $mathbb{T}^n$ does not admit a metric of positive scalar curvature. In this work we introduce a new notion of curvature interpolating between Ricci and scalar curvature (so called $m$-intermediate curvature), and use stable weighted slicings to show that for $nleq7$ the manifolds $N^n=M^{n-m}imesmathbb{T}^m$ do not admit a metric of positive $m$-intermediate curvature.

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