Minimal entropy and collapsing with curvature bounded from below

DOI10.1007/S00222-002-0262-7zbMATH Open1049.53029arXivmath/0011104OpenAlexW1964226067MaRDI QIDQ1401474FDOQ1401474

Authors: Gabriel P. Paternain, Jimmy Petean 

Publication date: 17 August 2003

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that if a closed manifold M admits an F-structure (possibly of rank 0) then its minimal entropy vanishes. In particular, this is the case if M admits a non-trivial circle action. As a corollary we obtain that the simplicial volume of a colsed manifold admitting an F-structure is zero. We also show that if M admits an F-structure then it collapses with curvature bounded from below. This is turn implies that M collapses with bounded scalar curvature or, equivalently, its Yamabe invariant is non-negative. We show that F-structures of rank zero appear rather frequently:every compact complex elliptic surface admits one as well as any simply connected 5-manifold. We use these results to study the minimal entropy problem. We show the following two theorems: suppose M is obtained by taking connected sums of copies of CP^2 (with any orintation), S^2 imes S^2 and the K3 surface. Then M has zero minimal entropy. Moreover, M admits a metric with zero topological entropy if and only if M is diffeomorphic to S^4, CP^2, S^2 imes S^2, CP^2#CP^2 or CP^2#(-CP^2). Finally, suppose that M is a closed simply connected 5-manifold. Than M has zero minimal entropy. Moreover, M admits a metric with zero topological entropy if and only if M is diffeomorphic to S^5, S^3 imes S^2, the non-trivial S^3-bundle over S^2 or the Wu manifold SU(3)/SO(3).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0011104

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zbMATH Keywords

minimal entropysimplicial volume\(\mathcal{F}\)-structure\(\mathcal{T}\)-structurecollapsing \(\mathcal{F}\) structureminimal entropy problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

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