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A counterexample to the (unstable) Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture

Geometric Topology 2018-11-28 v1 K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

Doing surgery on the 5-torus, we construct a 5-dimensional closed spin-manifold M with π1(M)=Z4timesZ/3\pi_1(M) = Z^4times Z/3, so that the index invariant in the KO-theory of the reduced CC^*-algebra of π1(M)\pi_1(M) is zero. Then we use the theory of minimal surfaces of Schoen/Yau to show that this manifolds cannot carry a metric of positive scalar curvature. The existence of such a metric is predicted by the (unstable) Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.math/0403063,
  title  = {A counterexample to the (unstable) Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture},
  author = {Thomas Schick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0403063},
  year   = {2018}
}

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4 pages, old

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