On Gromov's rigidity theorem for polytopes with acute angles

Abstract: In his Four Lectures, Gromov conjectured a scalar curvature extremality property of convex polytopes. Moreover, Gromov outlined a proof of the conjecture in the special case when the dihedral angles are acute. Gromov's argument relies on Dirac operator techniques together with a smoothing construction. In this paper, we give the details of the smoothing construction, thereby providing a detailed proof of Gromov's theorem. The proof of the rigidity statement also uses a deep estimate due to Fefferman and Phong.