Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Author(s): James F. Davis; Kimberly Pearson
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 131 (2003), 3571-3578.
MSC (2000): Primary 53C21; Secondary 19L41, 19L64, 57R15, 55N15, 53C20
Posted: April 24, 2003
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Abstract: We prove the Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture for cocompact Fuchsian groups, thereby giving necessary and sufficient conditions for a closed spin manifold of dimension greater than four with fundamental group cocompact Fuchsian to admit a metric of positive scalar curvature.

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James F. Davis
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
Email: jfdavis@indiana.edu

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