Rosenberg's S1S^1-stability conjecture for the Yamabe invariant

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Let MnM^n be a closed, connected nn-manifold, let S1S^1 be the circle, and let σ\sigma denote the Yamabe invariant. Rosenberg's S1S^1-stability conjecture. The Yamabe invariants of MnM^n and Mn×S1M^n\times S^1 satisfy

σ(Mn)>0    σ(Mn×S1)>0.\sigma(M^n)>0\iff \sigma(M^n\times S^1)>0.

The conjecture asserts stability of positivity of the Yamabe invariant under taking the product with a circle. The paper's abstract proves the corresponding statement for compact manifolds with non-empty boundary in dimensions 33, 55, and 66, but the closed-manifold conjecture itself is not identified as fully resolved here.

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Tongrui Wang and Xuan Yao, “Generalized S^1-stability theorem”, arXiv:2309.13865 (2023).

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