Complex surfaces with CAT(0) metrics

DOI10.1007/S00039-011-0133-8MaRDI QIDQ659924zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 24 January 2012

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1448

CAT(0) metrics polyhedral Kähler manifold polyhedral metrics

Special surfaces (14J25) Negative curvature complex manifolds (32Q05) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

Abstract: We study complex surfaces with locally CAT(0) polyhedral Kahler metrics and construct such metrics on CP^2 with various orbifold structures. In particular, in relation to questions of Gromov and Davis-Moussong we construct such metrics on a compact quotient of the two-dimensional unite complex ball. In the course of the proof of these results we give criteria for Sasakian 3-manifolds to be globally CAT(1). We show further that for certain Kummer coverings of CP^2 of sufficiently high degree their desingularizations are of type K(pi,1).

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A ``polyhedral Kähler manifold (PK manifold) is a PL manifold \(M^{2n}\) with a flat metric with singularities and a compatible parallel complex structure defined outside of metric singularities. The metric should satisfy two conditions: 1. \(M^{2n}\) admits a simplicial decomposition such that the metric restricts to a flat Euclidean metric on each simplex. The singular locus of the metric is then a union of several \((2n-2)\)-dimensional simplexes. 2. Every \((2n-2)\)-dimensional simplex contained in the singular locus of the metric is holomorphic with respect to the complex structure on each top dimensional simplex containing it. A (geodesic) triangle \(\Delta\) in \(M\) is a union of geodesic segments joining three points of \(M\). The comparison triangle of \(\Delta\) in the flat Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\) is the triangle \(\widetilde{\Delta}\) with edges of the same length as in \(\Delta\). The triangle \(\Delta\) is said to satisfy the \(\text{CAT}(0)\) inequality if \(d(x,y)\leq d(\widetilde{x},\widetilde{y})\) holds for all \(x,y\in\Delta\) and the corresponding points \(\widetilde {x},\widetilde{y}\in\widetilde{\Delta}\). The metric is called locally \(\text{CAT}(0)\) if each point of \(M\) has a neighborhood in which all geodesic triangles satisfy the \(\text{CAT}(0)\) inequality. The author gives criteria on the singularities of PK metrics implying that the metric is locally \(\text{CAT}(0)\), and uses them to construct several families of locally \(\text{CAT}(0)\) orbifold metrics on \(\mathbb{CP}^{2}\). In particular, he produces a locally \(\text{CAT} (0)\) polyhedral metric on a compact complex hyperbolic \(2\)-ball quotient. Further, several families of complex surfaces of type \(K(\pi,1)\) are constructed.

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