Linking curves, sutured manifolds and the Ambrose conjecture for generic 3-manifolds (Q2409065): Difference between revisions

\textit{W. Ambrose}'s conjecture [Ann. Math. (2) 64, 337--363 (1956; Zbl 0075.17402)] proposes, roughly speaking, that a simply connected complete Riemannian manifold is determined by the behavior of parallel transport of the curvature tensor along geodesics leaving a distinguished point. The conjecture has been previously confirmed by Ambrose for analytic manifolds by \textit{J. J. Hebda} [Int. J. Math. Math. Sci. 2010, Article ID 187232, 7 p. (2010; Zbl 1202.53037)] and subsequently by Itoh for surfaces, and by Hebda [loc. cit.] for heterogeneous manifolds. In the article under review, the author proves the conjecture for sutured manifolds. The notion of sutured metric involves the existence of certain closed curves emanating from a distinguished point. The author then studies the set of sutured metrics; the main result is that the set of (strongly) sutured metrics on a three-dimensional smooth manifold forms a residual set inside the space of arbitrary metrics. The present article introduces and investigates concepts like linking curves, synthesis manifolds or conjugate descending flow.