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H-Space structures on spaces of metrics of positive scalar curvature

Geometric Topology 2022-01-28 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We construct and study an HH-space multiplication on R+(M)\mathcal R^+(M) for manifolds MM which are nullcobordant in their own tangential 22-type. This is applied to give a rigidity criterion for the action of the diffeomorphism group on R+(M)\mathcal R^+(M) via pullback. We also compare this to other known multiplicative structures on R+(M)\mathcal R^+(M).

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@article{arxiv.2004.01033,
  title  = {H-Space structures on spaces of metrics of positive scalar curvature},
  author = {Georg Frenck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.01033},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

15 pages, 21 figures; v2: revision according to referee report, accepted for publication in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc