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An index obstruction to positive scalar curvature on fiber bundles over aspherical manifolds. (English) Zbl 1377.58017
Summary: We exhibit geometric situations where higher indices of the spinor Dirac operator on a spin manifold $$N$$ are obstructions to positive scalar curvature on an ambient manifold $$M$$ that contains $$N$$ as a submanifold. In the main result of this note, we show that the Rosenberg index of $$N$$ is an obstruction to positive scalar curvature on $$M$$ if $$N \hookrightarrow M \twoheadrightarrow B$$ is a fiber bundle of spin manifolds with $$B$$ aspherical and $$\pi_1(B)$$ of finite asymptotic dimension. The proof is based on a new variant of the multipartitioned manifold index theorem which might be of independent interest. Moreover, we present an analogous statement for codimension-one submanifolds. We also discuss some elementary obstructions using the $$\hat{\operatorname{A}}$$-genus of certain submanifolds.

##### MSC:
 58J22 Exotic index theories on manifolds 46L80 $$K$$-theory and operator algebras (including cyclic theory) 53C23 Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces
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