Harmonic cellular maps which are not diffeomorphisms

DOI10.1007/S00222-004-0377-0MaRDI QIDQ706140zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. Thomas Farrell, Pedro Ontaneda

Publication date 2 February 2005

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0311175

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic maps hyperbolic manifold pinched sectional curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: We give examples of harmonic cellular maps between negatively curved manifolds which are not diffeomorphisms but are homotopic to diffeomorphisms.

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The following interesting examples of negatively curved manifolds and harmonic maps are constructed: For every integer \(m\geq 11\), there is a harmonic cellular map between a pair of closed negatively curved \(m\)-dimensional Riemannian manifolds which is not a diffeomorphism. However, it can be approximated by diffeomorphisms. Given \(\varepsilon>0\), there is also a one-parameter family of Riemannian metrics \((\mu_s)_{0\leq s\leq1}\) on some closed orientable smooth \(m\)-dimensional manifold such that \(\mu_1\) is hyperbolic, the sectional curvatures of all \(\mu_s\) are in \((1-\varepsilon,1+\varepsilon)\), and both (unique) harmonic maps homotopic to the identity from \((M,\mu_0)\) to \((M,\mu_1)\) and vice versa are not one-to-one. Both examples rely on a (rather explicit) construction of \(\varepsilon\)-pinched perturbations of a closed real hyperbolic manifold in such a way that both manifolds are homeomorphic but not PL-homeomorphic.

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