Homotopy invariance of positive-scalar-curvature metric spaces for manifolds with the same normal 2-type
Homotopy invariance of positive-scalar-curvature metric spaces for manifolds with the same normal 2-type
Let and be closed -manifolds with and the same normal -type. Assume that both and admit metrics of positive scalar curvature. Write for the space of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature on . Normal 2-type homotopy invariance conjecture. One has a homotopy equivalence
This claim extends the paper's preceding special cases for spin and non-spin manifolds to arbitrary closed manifolds with the same normal -type. Its status is not resolved in the supplied text.
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Primary source
Johannes Ebert and Michael Wiemeler, “On the homotopy type of the space of metrics of positive scalar curvature”, arXiv:2012.00432 (2022).
Additional references
5 papers in this index state this conjecture (1999–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1312.0928, arXiv:math/0607751, arXiv:math/0401075, arXiv:math/9902151.
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