Positive intermediate Ricci curvature on connected sums

2023/10/04 by Philipp Reiser, Reiser, Philipp, David J. Wraith +1 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Geometry and complex manifolds #Advanced Differential Geometry Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2310.02746

Abstract

We consider the problem of performing connected sums in the context of positive k^th intermediate Ricci curvature. We show that such connected sums are possible if the manifolds involved possess `k-core metrics' for some k. Here, a k-core metric is a generalization of the notion of core metric introduced by Burdick for positive Ricci curvature. Further, we show that connected sums of linear sphere bundles over bases admitting such metrics admit positive k^th intermediate Ricci curvature for k in a particular range. This follows from a plumbing result we establish, which generalizes other recent plumbing results in the literature and is possibly of independent interest. As an example of a manifold admitting a k-core metric, we prove that ℍ Pⁿ admits a (4n-3)-core metric and that \mathbbOP² admits a 9-core metric, and we show that in both cases these are optimal.

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