Rosenberg–Stolz conjecture for products with the plane

Let YY be a closed manifold of dimension (n2)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.

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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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