Scalar curvature under weak limits of manifolds
Differential Geometry
2026-05-06 v1
Abstract
We show that scalar curvature lower bounds are preserved under certain weak convergence of smooth three manifolds to a smooth limit. More precisely, suppose that and are smooth, closed, Riemannian three manifolds. Assume that there are smooth, surjective, -Lipschitz maps and that and . Then if each has scalar curvature bounded below by so does . This result answers questions of Gromov, Sormani, Allen, and others. The proof relies on a delicate comparison between -bubbles in and -bubbles in .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.03136,
title = {Scalar curvature under weak limits of manifolds},
author = {Liam Mazurowski and Xuan Yao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.03136},
year = {2026}
}
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