31
MAI

Positive Scalar Curvature from a Concordance Viewpoint

Seminar
Spezialisiert / Akademisch
31.05.2022 13:15
Präsenzveranstaltung

Scalar curvature is a local invariant of a Riemannian manifold. It measures asymptotically the volume growth of geodesic balls. Understanding the topological space of all positive scalar curvature metrics on a closed manifold has been an active field of study during the last 30 years. So far, these spaces have been considered from an isotopy viewpoint.
I will describe a new approach to study this space bases on the notion of concordance. To this end, I construct with the help of cubical set theory a comparison space that only encodes concordance information and in which the space of psc metrics canonically embeds. After the presentation of some of its properties I will show that the indexdifference, the most important invariant in this field, factors over the comparison space and draw conclusions.
Wann?
31.05.2022 13:15
Wo?
Standort PER 07 / Raum 1.311
Chemin du Musée 6, 1700 Fribourg
Organisation
Oberseminar Topologie
Anand Dessai
anand.dessai@unifr.ch
Vortragende / Mitwirkende
Thorsten Hertl (Uni. Göttingen)