Urysohn width and macroscopic scalar curvature

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Auteurs principaux: Kumar, Aditya, Sen, Balarka
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author Kumar, Aditya
Sen, Balarka
author_facet Kumar, Aditya
Sen, Balarka
contents We show that the macroscopic version of Gromov's Urysohn width conjecture for scalar curvature is false in dimensions four and above. This is based on (1) a novel estimate on the codimension two Urysohn width of circle bundles over manifolds with large hypersphericity radius, and (2) a notion of ruling for Riemannian manifolds that yields circle bundles with total spaces admitting metrics of positive macroscopic scalar curvature. Along the way, we also show that Urysohn width is not continuous under Cheeger-Gromov collapsing limits. This article is a continuation of our study of metric invariants and scalar curvature for circle bundles over large Riemannian manifolds initiated in [KS25].
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spellingShingle Urysohn width and macroscopic scalar curvature
Kumar, Aditya
Sen, Balarka
Differential Geometry
Metric Geometry
We show that the macroscopic version of Gromov's Urysohn width conjecture for scalar curvature is false in dimensions four and above. This is based on (1) a novel estimate on the codimension two Urysohn width of circle bundles over manifolds with large hypersphericity radius, and (2) a notion of ruling for Riemannian manifolds that yields circle bundles with total spaces admitting metrics of positive macroscopic scalar curvature. Along the way, we also show that Urysohn width is not continuous under Cheeger-Gromov collapsing limits. This article is a continuation of our study of metric invariants and scalar curvature for circle bundles over large Riemannian manifolds initiated in [KS25].
title Urysohn width and macroscopic scalar curvature
topic Differential Geometry
Metric Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14669