Generalized positive scalar curvature on spin^c manifolds

DOI10.1007/S10455-024-09977-6MaRDI QIDQ6642872zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors B. I. Botvinnik, Jonathan M. Rosenberg

Publication date 25 November 2024

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S10455-024-09977-6

zbMATH Keywords

\(\text{spin}^c\) manifolds\(K\)-theorybordismsindex differencepositive scalar curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connective (K)-theory, cobordism (19L41) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22) Exotic index theories on manifolds (58J22)

Review text

The authors consider a compact \(\text{spin}^c\) manifold \((M,g)\) whose auxiliary line bundle has a connection \(A\). They introduce the notion of generalized scalar curvature which is expressed in terms of the scalar curvature of the manifold and the operator norm of Clifford multiplication \(c(\Omega)\), where \(\Omega\) is the curvature of the connection \(A\). They show that the positivity of the generalized scalar curvature is equivalent to the positivity of a twisted scalar curvature that they have introduced in a previous paper [\textit{B. Botvinnik} and \textit{J. Rosenberg}, J. Reine Angew. Math. 803, 103--136 (2023; Zbl 1530.53065)]. Then, they use the trichotomy theorem of Kazdan-Warner concerning the existence of metrics with positive scalar curvature to get a corresponding result concerning the generalized scalar curvature on \(\text{spin}^c\) manifolds.

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