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A proof of Gromov's cube inequality on scalar curvature

Differential Geometry 2023-04-26 v4

Abstract

Gromov proved a cube inequality on the bound of distances between opposite faces of a cube equipped with a positive scalar curvature metric in dimension 8\leq 8 using minimal surface method. He conjectured that the cube inequality also holds in dimension 9\geq 9. In this paper, we prove Gromov's cube inequality in all dimensions with the optimal constant via Dirac operator method. In fact, our proof yields a strengthened version of Gromov's cube inequality, which does not seem to be accessible by minimal surface method.

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@article{arxiv.2105.12054,
  title  = {A proof of Gromov's cube inequality on scalar curvature},
  author = {Jinmin Wang and Zhizhang Xie and Guoliang Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.12054},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

21 pages. v3 to v4: the proof for the strict inequality has been revised