Enlargeable Length-structures and Scalar Curvatures
Abstract
We define enlargeable length-structures on closed topological manifolds and then show that the connected sum of a closed -manifold with an enlargeable Riemannian length-structure with an arbitrary closed smooth manifold carries no Riemannian metrics with positive scalar curvature. We show that closed smooth manifolds with a locally CAT(0)-metric which is strongly equivalent to a Riemannian metric are examples of closed manifolds with an enlargeable Riemannian length-structure. Moreover, the result is correct in arbitrary dimensions based on the main result of a recent paper by Schoen and Yau. We define the positive -scalar curvature on closed orientable topological manifolds and show the compactly enlargeable length-structures are the obstructions of its existence.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1907.03135,
title = {Enlargeable Length-structures and Scalar Curvatures},
author = {Jialong Deng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.03135},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Change the title and to appear in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry