Metrics with Positive Scalar Curvature at Infinity and Localization Algebra

Abstract

In this paper, the authors give a new proof of Block and Weinberger’s Bochner vanishing theorem built on direct computations in the K-theory of the localization algebra.

Keywords

Positive scalar curvature at infinity / K-theory of C*-algebras / Higher index theory

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