On Rigidly Scalar-Flat Manifolds

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Authors: B. I. Botvinnik, Brett McInnes 

Abstract: Witten and Yau (hep-th/9910245) have recently considered a generalisation of the AdS/CFT correspondence, and have shown that the relevant manifolds have certain physically desirable properties when the scalar curvature of the boundary is positive. It is natural to ask whether similar results hold when the scalar curvature is zero. With this motivation, we study compact scalar flat manifolds which do not accept a positive scalar curvature metric. We call these manifolds rigidly scalar-flat. We study this class of manifolds in terms of special holonomy groups. In particular, we prove that if, in addition, a rigidly scalar flat manifold $M$ is $Spin$ with $dimMgeq5$, then $M$ either has a finite cyclic fundamental group, or it must be a counter example to Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.) (57R15)

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