Some conjectures on intrinsic volumes of Riemannian manifolds and Alexandrov spaces

DOI10.1007/S40598-017-0078-6zbMATH Open1402.53033arXiv1611.09546OpenAlexW2963918563WikidataQ115372663 ScholiaQ115372663MaRDI QIDQ1617455FDOQ1617455

Semyon Alesker

Publication date: 8 November 2018

Published in: Arnold Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For any closed smooth Riemannian manifold H. Weyl has defined a sequence of numbers called today intrinsic volumes. They include volume, Euler characteristic, and integral of the scalar curvature. We conjecture that absolute values of all intrinsic volumes are bounded by a constant depending only on the dimension of the manifold, upper bound on its diameter, and lower bound on the sectional curvature. Furthermore we conjecture that intrinsic volumes can be defined for some (so called smoothable) Alexandrov spaces with curvature bounded below and state few of the expected properties of them, particularly the behavior under the Gromov-Hausdorff limits. We suggest conjectural compactifications of the space of smooth closed connected Riemannian manifolds with given upper bounds on dimension and diameter and a lower bound on sectional curvature to which the intrinsic volumes extend by continuity. We discuss also known cases of some of these conjectures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09546

zbMATH Keywords

Gromov-Hausdorff convergenceRiemannian manifoldAlexandrov spaceintrinsic volumes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

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