Rosenberg's product conjecture for positive scalar curvature

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Let Σ\Sigma be a closed manifold of dimension at least 33, with dimΣ4\dim\Sigma\ne4. A positive scalar curvature metric is a Riemannian metric whose scalar curvature is everywhere positive. Rosenberg's conjecture. The manifold Σ\Sigma admits a positive scalar curvature metric if and only if Σ×S1\Sigma\times{\mathbb S}^1 does. Rosenberg found a counterexample in dimension 44, while the conjecture remains open in all higher dimensions. The results in the paper require only the special case in which Σ×S1\Sigma\times{\mathbb S}^1 admits a warped product metric of positive scalar curvature.

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Eric Ling, Argam Ohanyan and Eric Woolgar, “The Penrose singularity theorem, MOTS stability, and horizon topology in weighted spacetimes”, arXiv:2510.26675 (2025).

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