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arxiv 2112.14442 v1 pith:SILKID3H submitted 2021-12-29 math.DG

Incompressible hypersurface, positive scalar curvature and positive mass theorem

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In this paper, we prove for $n\leq 7$ that if a differentiable $n$-manifold contains a relatively incompressible essential hypersurface in some class $\mathcal C_{deg}$, then it admits no complete metric with positive scalar curvature. Based on this result, we show for $n\leq 7$ that surgeries between orientable $n$-manifolds and $n$-torus along incompressible sub-torus with codimension no less than $2$ still preserve the obstruction for complete metrics with positive scalar curvature. As an application, we establish positive mass theorem with incompressible conditions for asymptotically flat/conical manifolds with flat fiber $F$ (including ALF and ALG manifolds), which can be viewed as a generalization of the classical positive mass theorem from \cite{SY79PMT} and \cite{SY2017}. Finally, we investigate Gromov's fill-in problem and bound the total mean curvature for nonnegative scalar curvature fill-ins of flat $2$-toruses (an optimal bound is obtained for product $2$-toruses). This confirms the validity of Mantoulidis-Miao's definition of generalized Brown-York mass in \cite{MM2017} for flat $2$-toruses.

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