OpenAI reports uniform width from spectral scalar curvature

For n≥4, every complete connected smooth n-manifold with the quadratic-form lower bound −4Δ+Scal≥1 maps continuously to a simplicial complex of dimension at most n−2 with every fiber’s original-metric diameter bounded only by n.

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For n≥4, every complete connected smooth n-manifold with the quadratic-form lower bound −4Δ+Scal≥1 maps continuously to a simplicial complex of dimension at most n−2 with every fiber’s original-metric diameter bounded only by n.

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If correct, strengthens the macroscopic-width theorem from pointwise to spectral scalar curvature.

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Does a spectral scalar-curvature lower bound force uniform codimension-two width?

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