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Doubling a cube with positive scalar curvature

Differential Geometry 2018-10-04 v1

Abstract

In a 2013 paper, Gromov proves that if smooth Riemannian metrics gig_i converge to a smooth Riemannian metric gg uniformly, and gig_i have scalar curvature uniformly bounded below, then gg shares the same scalar curvature lower bound. In some places in the paper, the proofs are only sketched. In this paper we explain one of those sketched steps in detail. Specifically, we prove that a cube (the product [0,1]n[0,1]^n) cannot have a Riemannian metric with positive scalar curvature, such that the faces are mean convex, and such that the dihedral angles along the edges are all acute. The proof is accomplished by taking such a metric, and producing from it a metric on the nn-torus with positive scalar curvature, contradicting the Geroch conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1810.01579,
  title  = {Doubling a cube with positive scalar curvature},
  author = {Haggai Nuchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.01579},
  year   = {2018}
}