No metrics with Positive Scalar Curvatures on Aspherical 5-Manifolds
Abstract
A metric space is called uniformly acyclic if there there exists an {\it acyclicty control function} , , such that the homology inclusion homomorphisms between the balls around all points , vanish for all . We show that if a complete orientable -dimensional manifold of dimension admits a proper (infinity goes to infinity) distance decreasing map to a complete -dimensional uniformly acyclic manifold, then the scalar curvature of can't be uniformly positive, Since the universal coverings of compact aspherical manifolds are {\it uniformly acyclic}, (in fact, {\it uniformly contractible}), these , admit no metrics with for . Our argument, that depends on {\it torical symmetrization} of {\it stable -bubbles}, is inspired by the recent paper by Otis Chodosh and Chao Li on non-existence of metrics with on aspherical 4-manifolds and is also influenced by the ideas of Jintian Zhu and Thomas Richard.
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@article{arxiv.2009.05332,
title = {No metrics with Positive Scalar Curvatures on Aspherical 5-Manifolds},
author = {Misha Gromov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.05332},
year = {2020}
}