Events for 09/30/2020 from all calendars

Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Time: 1:00PM - 2:00PM

Location: Zoom 942810031

Speaker: Simone Cecchini, University of Göttingen

Title: A long neck principle for Riemannian spin manifolds with positive scalar curvature

Abstract: We present results in index theory on compact Riemannian spin manifolds with boundary in the case when the topological information is encoded by bundles which are supported away from the boundary. As a first application, we establish a ``long neck principle'' for a compact Riemannian spin n-manifold with boundary X, stating that if scal(X) ≥ n(n-1) and there is a nonzero degree map f into the n-sphere which is area decreasing, then the distance between the support of the differential of f and the boundary of X is at most π/n. This answers, in the spin setting, a question recently asked by Gromov. As a second application, we consider a Riemannian manifold X obtained by removing a small n-ball from a closed spin n-manifold Y. We show that if scal(X) ≥ σ >0 and Y satisfies a certain condition expressed in terms of higher index theory, then the width of a geodesic collar neighborhood Is bounded from above from a constant depending on σ and n. Finally, we consider the case of a Riemannian n-manifold V diffeomorphic to N x [-1,1], with N a closed spin manifold with nonvanishing Rosenebrg index. In this case, we show that if scal(V) ≥ n(n-1), then the distance between the boundary components of V is at most 2π/n. This last constant is sharp by an argument due to Gromov.

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