Rosenberg's positive scalar curvature conjecture for odd-order fundamental groups

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Let MnM^n be a connected closed manifold whose fundamental group π1(M)\pi_1(M) is finite of odd order. A metric of positive scalar curvature on the universal cover of MM need not descend to MM. Rosenberg's conjecture. MM admits a metric of positive scalar curvature if and only if its universal cover does. The statement is disproved by examples in the paper: there are manifolds with finite fundamental groups of odd order that do not admit metrics of positive scalar curvature, although their universal covers do.

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B. Hanke, D. Kotschick and J. Wehrheim, “Dissolving four-manifolds and positive scalar curvature”, arXiv:math/0306096 (2003).

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