Index theory and deformations of open nonnegatively curved manifolds

DOI10.4310/JDG/1669998181arXiv1805.02239MaRDI QIDQ6301236FDOQ6301236

Publication date: 6 May 2018

Abstract: We use an index-theoretic technique of Hitchin to show that the space of complete Riemannian metrics of nonnegative sectional curvature on certain open spin manifolds has nontrivial homotopy groups in infinitely many degrees. A new ingredient of independent interest is homotopy density of the subspace of metrics with cylindrical ends.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Homotopy groups of special spaces (55Q52)

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