Ricci curvature and betti numbers

Construction of Manifolds of Positive Ricci Curvature with Big Volume and Large Betti Numbers

It is shown that a connected sum of an arbitrary number of complex projective planes carries a metric of positive Ricci curvature with diameter one and, in contrast with the earlier examples of Sha–Yang and Anderson, with volume bounded away from zero. The key step is to construct complete metrics of positive Ricci curvature on the punctured complex projective plane, which have uniform euclidea...

-betti Numbers

The Atiyah conjecture predicts that the L-Betti numbers of a finite CW -complex with torsion-free fundamental group are integers. We show that the Atiyah conjecture holds (with an additional technical condition) for direct and inverse limits of groups for which it is true. As a corollary it holds for residually torsion-free solvable groups, e.g. for pure braid groups or for positive 1-relator g...

Coverings and Betti Numbers

Curvature, Diameter and Betti Umbers

Let V denote a compact (without boundary) connected Riemannian manifold of dimension n. We denote by K the sectional curvature of V and we set inf K = ird~ K(-r) where 9 runs over all tangent 2-planes in V. One calls V a manifold of non-negative curvature ff inf K>~0. This condition has the following geometric meaning. A n n-dimensional Riemannian manifold has non-negative curvature iff for eac...

Betti numbers of subgraphs

Let G be a simple graph on n vertices. LetH be either the complete graph Km or the complete bipartite graph Kr,s on a subset of the vertices in G. We show that G contains H as a subgraph if and only if βi,α(H) ≤ βi,α(G) for all i ≥ 0 and α ∈ Z. In fact, it suffices to consider only the first syzygy module. In particular, we prove that β1,α(H) ≤ β1,α(G) for all α ∈ Z if and only if G contains a ...