Homotopy groups of the moduli space of metrics of positive scalar curvature

DOI10.2140/GT.2010.14.2047zbMATH Open1201.58006arXiv0907.5188OpenAlexW3104352874MaRDI QIDQ991852FDOQ991852

Authors: B. I. Botvinnik, Bernhard Hanke, Thomas Schick, Mark Walsh 

Publication date: 8 September 2010

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that for many degrees in a stable range the homotopy groups of the moduli space of metrics of positive scalar curvature on S^n and on other manifolds are non-trivial. This is achieved by further developing and then applying a family version of the surgery construction of Gromov-Lawson to an exotic smooth families of spheres due to Hatcher. As described, this works for all manifolds of suitable dimension and for the quotient of the space of metrics of positive scalar curvature by the (free) action of the subgroup of diffeomorphisms which fix a point and its tangent space. We also construct special manifolds where the quotient of the space of metrcis of positive scalar curvature by the full diffeomorphism group has non-trivial higher homotopy groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.5188

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zbMATH Keywords

rational homotopy typemoduli space of positive scalar curvature metricsclassifying space of a diffeomorphism groupGromov-Lawson surgery parametrized by a Morse functionHatcher mapmetrics of positive scalar curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Homotopy groups of special spaces (55Q52) Homotopy and topological questions for infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B05) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

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