The positive scalar curvature conjecture for closed aspherical manifolds

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Let MM be a closed aspherical manifold, meaning that its higher homotopy groups satisfy πk(M)=0\pi_k(M)=0 for all k2k\ge2. A positive scalar curvature metric is a Riemannian metric whose scalar curvature is everywhere positive. Chodosh's conjecture. No closed aspherical manifold admits a positive scalar curvature metric. This is a central obstruction conjecture in the study of positive scalar curvature and aspherical manifolds; the supplied text does not give evidence resolving it, so its status remains open.

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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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