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Enlargeable Length-structures and Scalar Curvatures

Differential Geometry 2021-05-28 v4 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We define enlargeable length-structures on closed topological manifolds and then show that the connected sum of a closed nn-manifold with an enlargeable Riemannian length-structure with an arbitrary closed smooth manifold carries no Riemannian metrics with positive scalar curvature. We show that closed smooth manifolds with a locally CAT(0)-metric which is strongly equivalent to a Riemannian metric are examples of closed manifolds with an enlargeable Riemannian length-structure. Moreover, the result is correct in arbitrary dimensions based on the main result of a recent paper by Schoen and Yau. We define the positive MVMV-scalar curvature on closed orientable topological manifolds and show the compactly enlargeable length-structures are the obstructions of its existence.

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@article{arxiv.1907.03135,
  title  = {Enlargeable Length-structures and Scalar Curvatures},
  author = {Jialong Deng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.03135},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Change the title and to appear in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry

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