Canonical diffeomorphisms of manifolds near spheres (Q6166641)

Given an \(n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold \(M\) which is close to the standard \(n\)-sphere in the Gromov-Hausdorff topology, and whose Ricci curvature is bounded from below by \(n-1\), the work of \textit{J. Cheeger} and \textit{T. H. Colding} [J. Differential Geom. 46, 406--480 (1997; Zbl 0902.53034)] has shown \(M\) to be diffeomorphic to \(S^n\). The paper under review constructs the diffeomorphism from the first \(n+1\) eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator on \(M\) in a canonical fashion and proves that the constructed diffeomorphism satisfies a bi-Hölder condition, which cannot be improved to a bi-Lipschitz condition.