English

Two-dimension vanishing, splitting and positive scalar curvature

Differential Geometry 2024-11-12 v3 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove several analogs of Gromov's macroscopic dimension conjecture with extra curvature assumptions. More explicitly, we show that for an open Riemannian nn-manifold (M,g)(M,g) of nonnegative Ricci (resp. sectional) curvature, if it has uniformly positive scalar curvature and it is uniformly volume noncollapsed, then the essential (resp. Hausdorff) dimension of an asymptotic cone, as a notion of largeness, has a sharp upper bound n2n-2, which is 22 less than the upper bound for an open Riemannian manifold with only nonnegative Ricci curvature. As a consequence, the dimension of space of linear growth harmonic functions of MM has upper bound n1n-1 which is also 22 less than the sharp bound n+1n+1 when MM only has nonnegative Ricci curvature. We also prove the first Betti number upper bound is n2n-2 if MM is compact, and n3n-3 if MM is non-compact. When MM is compact we show a fibration theorem over torus, and a rigidity theorem for the fiber when the first Betti number upper bound is achieved.

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@article{arxiv.2304.11466,
  title  = {Two-dimension vanishing, splitting and positive scalar curvature},
  author = {Xingyu Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.11466},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

19 pages, Proof in section 3 revised, A theorem about first Betti number is added, abstract changed accordingly