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 , so that the index invariant in the KO-theory of the reduced -algebra of 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