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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 MkM_k and MM are smooth, closed, Riemannian three manifolds. Assume that there are smooth, surjective, λk\lambda_k-Lipschitz maps fk ⁣:MkMf_k\colon M_k \to M and that Vol(Mk)Vol(M)\text{Vol}(M_k)\to \text{Vol}(M) and λk1\lambda_k\to 1. Then if each MkM_k has scalar curvature bounded below by κ\kappa so does MM. This result answers questions of Gromov, Sormani, Allen, and others. The proof relies on a delicate comparison between μ\mu-bubbles in MkM_k and μ\mu-bubbles in MM.

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@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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