Controlled geometry via smoothing

DOI10.1007/S000140050093MaRDI QIDQ1125554zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Petersen, Guofang Wei, Rugang Ye

Publication date 6 December 1999

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9508012

zbMATH Keywords

Betti numberfamily of normsGromov's almost flat manifold theoremsmoothing results

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Abstract: We prove that Riemannian metrics with a uniform weak norm can be smoothed to having arbitrarily high regularity. This generalizes all previous smoothing results. As a consequence we obtain a generalization of Gromov's almost flat manifold theorem. A uniform Betti number estimate is also obtained.

Review text

The authors assume that they have found the minimal degree of local geometric control on the metric tensor \(g\) of a Riemannian manifold \(M\) from which interesting global geometric and topological consequences for \(M\) can be drawn. This control is stated in terms of a family of norms on the metric and are defined either in terms of the \(C^{k,\alpha}\)-norms or the \(L^{k,p}\)-norms for functions. For some scale \(r>0\), these norms consider the embeddings of the standard Euclidean ball \(B(0,r)\) of radius \(r\) in \(M\), roughly as coordinate charts about each point of \(M\), and how smooth and well-behaved the associated locally defined pullback metrics on \(B(0,r)\) are. In the presence of uniform weak norm, the authors show that the Riemannian metric can be smoothed to have arbitrarily high regularity. Their smoothings generalize all previous smoothing results. As a consequence they also obtain a generalization of Gromov's almost flat manifold theorem and obtain a uniform Betti number estimate. The method of proof involves embedding the manifold into the Hilbert space of \(L^2\) functions on \(M\). This embedding uses solutions of a canonical geometric partial differential equation. The smoothed metrics arise as pullbacks of the \(L^2\) metric of the Hilbert space.

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