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Infinite loop spaces and
positive scalar curvature in the presence of a fundamental
group
Johannes Ebert and Oscar Randal-Williams |
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Geometry & Topology 23 (2019) 1549–1610
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Abstract |
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This is a continuation of our previous work with Botvinnik on the nontriviality of the secondary index invariant on spaces of metrics of positive scalar curvature, in which we take the fundamental group of the manifolds into account. We show that the secondary index invariant associated to the vanishing of the Rosenberg index can be highly nontrivial for positive scalar curvature Spin manifolds with torsionfree fundamental groups which satisfy the Baum–Connes conjecture. This gives the first example of the nontriviality of the group –algebra-valued secondary index invariant on higher homotopy groups. As an application, we produce a compact Spin –manifold whose space of positive scalar curvature metrics has each rational homotopy group infinite-dimensional. At a more technical level, we introduce the notion of “stable metrics” and prove a basic existence theorem for them, which generalises the Gromov–Lawson surgery technique, and we also give a method for rounding corners of manifolds with positive scalar curvature metrics. |
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Keywords
positive scalar curvature, Gromov–Lawson surgery, cobordism
categories, diffeomorphism groups, Madsen–Weiss-type
theorems, secondary index invariant, Rosenberg index,
Baum–Connes conjecture
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Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 19K35, 19K56, 53C27, 58J22
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References |
Publication
Received: 21 February 2018
Revised: 30 August 2018
Accepted: 7 October 2018
Published: 28 May 2019
Proposed: Ulrike Tillmann
Seconded: Stefan Schwede, John Lott
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Authors |
| Johannes Ebert | |
| Mathematisches Institut Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Münster Germany |
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| Oscar Randal-Williams | |
| Centre for Mathematical
Sciences University of Cambridge Cambridge United Kingdom |
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