2001/12/31 by Jonathan Rosenberg, Stephan Stolz · 106 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Mathematics · Medicine · #Advanced Differential Geometry Research #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Scalar curvature #Curvature #Scalar (mathematics) #General surgery #Mathematics #Medicine #Computer science #Geometry
paper · doi:10.1515/9781400865215-010
published in Princeton University Press eBooks, 353-386 (Princeton University Press)
openalex publication_date 2001/12/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
This chapter discusses the connection between geometry of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature and surgery theory. While this is quite a deep subject which has attracted quite a bit of recent attention, the most surprising aspect of this whole area remains the original discovery