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Positive scalar curvature and odd order abelian fundamental groups

Author(s): Reinhard Schultz
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 907-915.
MSC (1991): Primary 53C21, 55N15, 57R75; Secondary 53C20, 57R85
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Abstract: If a smooth manifold has a Riemannian metric with positive scalar curvature, it follows immediately that the universal covering also has such a metric. The paper establishes a converse if the manifold in question is closed of dimension at least 5 and the fundamental group is an elementary abelian $p$-group of rank 2, where $p$ is an odd prime.

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Additional Information:

Reinhard Schultz
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, California 92521
Email: schultz@math.ucr.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03683-6
PII: S 0002-9939(97)03683-6
Received by editor(s): February 13, 1995
Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 13, 1995
Communicated by: Thomas Goodwillie
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society

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