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The Yamabe invariant of simply connected manifolds

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We prove that the Yamabe invariant of any simply connected smooth manifold of dimension n greater than four is non-negative. Equivalently that the infimum of the L^{n/2} norm of the scalar curvature, over the space of all Riemannian metrics on the manifold, is zero.

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@article{arxiv.math/9808062,
  title  = {The Yamabe invariant of simply connected manifolds},
  author = {Jimmy Petean},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9808062},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, Latex