Rosenberg's positive scalar curvature conjecture for odd-order fundamental groups
Let be a connected closed manifold whose fundamental group is finite of odd order. A metric of positive scalar curvature on the universal cover of need not descend to . Rosenberg's conjecture. 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.
References
Primary source
B. Hanke, D. Kotschick and J. Wehrheim, “Dissolving four-manifolds and positive scalar curvature”, arXiv:math/0306096 (2003).
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