Full Relative Aspherical Conjecture for positive scalar curvature
Full Relative Aspherical Conjecture for positive scalar curvature
Let be a compact manifold and let be a codimension- submanifold with trivial normal bundle. Say that is aspherical relative to when the map is injective and the maps
are isomorphisms for all .
Full Relative Aspherical Conjecture. If , is aspherical relative to , and admits no metric of positive scalar curvature, then admits no metric of positive scalar curvature.
This conjecture proposes a relative topological obstruction to positive scalar curvature in arbitrary codimension, without requiring an a priori assumption on the topology of the ambient manifold. Its general status is open.
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Primary source
Shihang He, “Relative aspherical conjecture and higher codimensional obstruction to positive scalar curvature”, arXiv:2403.11957 (2024).
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