Surgery and positive Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature

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author Reiser, Philipp
Tripaldi, Francesca
author_facet Reiser, Philipp
Tripaldi, Francesca
contents We consider the problem of preserving weighted Riemannian metrics of positive Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature along surgery. We establish two theorems of this type: One for connected sums, and one for surgeries along higher-dimensional spheres. In contrast to known surgery results for positive Ricci curvature, these results are local, i.e. we only impose assumptions on the weighted metric locally around the sphere along which the surgery is performed. As application we then show that all closed, simply-connected spin 5-manifolds admit a weighted Riemannian metric of positive Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature. By a result of Lott, this also provides new examples of manifolds with a Riemannian metric of positive Ricci curvature.
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spellingShingle Surgery and positive Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature
Reiser, Philipp
Tripaldi, Francesca
Differential Geometry
Geometric Topology
Metric Geometry
53C20, 53C21, 54E35, 57R65
We consider the problem of preserving weighted Riemannian metrics of positive Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature along surgery. We establish two theorems of this type: One for connected sums, and one for surgeries along higher-dimensional spheres. In contrast to known surgery results for positive Ricci curvature, these results are local, i.e. we only impose assumptions on the weighted metric locally around the sphere along which the surgery is performed. As application we then show that all closed, simply-connected spin 5-manifolds admit a weighted Riemannian metric of positive Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature. By a result of Lott, this also provides new examples of manifolds with a Riemannian metric of positive Ricci curvature.
title Surgery and positive Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature
topic Differential Geometry
Geometric Topology
Metric Geometry
53C20, 53C21, 54E35, 57R65
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18859