Macroscopic band width inequalities

Abstract

Inspired by Gromov's work on 'Metric inequalities with scalar curvature' we establish band width inequalities for Riemannian bands of the form $(V=M\times[0,1],g)$, where $M^{n-1}$ is a closed manifold. We introduce a new class of orientable manifolds we call filling enlargeable and prove: If $M$ is filling enlargeable and all unit balls in the universal cover of $(V,g)$ have volume less than a constant $\frac{1}{2}\varepsilon_n$, then $width(V,g)\leq1$. We show that if a closed orientable manifold is enlargeable or aspherical, then it is filling enlargeable. Furthermore we establish that whether a closed orientable manifold is filling enlargeable or not only depends on the image of the fundamental class under the classifying map of the universal cover.