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Geometry-Topology Seminar

Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 5:15pm

Sven Hirsch

Duke University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

This talk will be run both in person and by Zoom. Please contact gluck@math.upenn.edu for the Zoom link.

 

The theorem of Bonnet-Myers implies that manifolds with topology $M^{n-1}\times S^1$ do not admit a metric of positive Ricci curvature, while the resolution of Geroch's conjecture shows that the torus $T^n$ does not admit a metric of positive scalar curvature. In this talk I will introduce a new notion of curvature which interpolates between Ricci and scalar curvature (so-called $m$-intermediate curvature) and use stable weighted slicings to show that for $n\le7$ the manifolds $M^{n-m}\times T^m$ do not admit a metric of positive $m$-intermediate curvature. This is joint work with Simon Brendle and Florian Johne.