High-dimensional metric-measure limit of Stiefel and flag manifolds (Q1794563)

The main goal of the paper is to analyze the phenomenon of weak-convergence of Stiefel manifolds to a space which is not a metric measure space in the ordinary sense as it can be observed in the Gromov-Hausdorff convergence. More precisely, let \(V^F_{N,n}\) be the \((N,n)\)-Stiefel manifold over \(F\) equipped with the metric measure structure induced from the Frobenius norm and the Haar probability measure and suppose that the sequence of positive integers \((n_N)\) satisfies \(n_N\leq N\). If there is the number \(c\in (0,1)\) for which \[ \sup_{N}\left(2\log n_N-\dfrac{c}{4}\sqrt{\dfrac{N}{n_N^3}}\right)<\infty \] then the \((N,n_N)\)-Stiefel manifold with distance multiplied by \(\sqrt{N^F-1}\) converges weakly to the infinite-dimensional Gaussian space \(\Gamma^\infty\) (see Theorem 1.1). As a~corollary some asymptotic estimates of the observable diameter of flag and Stiefel manifolds are obtained (see Corollary 1.3).