Rosenberg–Stolz conjecture for products with the plane

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Let YY be a closed manifold of dimension (n−2)≠4(n-2)\neq4 which does not admit a metric of positive scalar curvature.

Rosenberg–Stolz conjecture. Y×R2Y\times\mathbb{R}^2 does not admit a complete metric with uniformly positive scalar curvature.

This is the codimension-two counterpart of the Rosenberg–Stolz conjecture for products with the real line. The paper's abstract states that it is solved up to dimension 77 for orientable manifolds.

References

Primary source

Simone Cecchini, Daniel Räde and Rudolf Zeidler, “Nonnegative scalar curvature on manifolds with at least two ends”, arXiv:2205.12174 (2023).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2008.13754, arXiv:1611.01800.

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