Completions, branched covers, Artin groups, and singularity theory

DOI10.1215/00127094-2380977zbMATH Open1294.53036arXiv1106.3459OpenAlexW2962909132WikidataQ124982374 ScholiaQ124982374MaRDI QIDQ2016419FDOQ2016419

Authors: Daniel Allcock 

Publication date: 20 June 2014

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

Abstract: We study the curvature of metric spaces and branched covers of Riemannian manifolds, with applications in topology and algebraic geometry. Here curvature bounds are expressed in terms of the CAT(k) inequality. We prove a general CAT(k) extension theorem, giving sufficient conditions on and near the boundary of a locally CAT(k) metric space for the completion to be CAT(k). We use this to prove that a branched cover of a complete Riemannian manifold is locally CAT(k) if and only if all tangent spaces are CAT(0) and the base has sectional curvature bounded above by k. We also show that the branched cover is a geodesic space. Using our curvature bound and a local asphericity assumption we give a sufficient condition for the branched cover to be globally CAT(k) and the complement of the branch locus to be contractible. We conjecture that the universal branched cover of complex Euclidean n-space over the mirrors of a finite Coxeter group is CAT(0). Conditionally on this conjecture, we use our machinery to prove the Arnol'd-Pham-Thom conjecture on K(pi,1) spaces for Artin groups. Also conditionally, we prove the asphericity of moduli spaces of amply lattice-polarized K3 surfaces and of the discriminant complements of all the unimodal hypersurface singularities in Arnol'd's hierarchy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3459

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zbMATH Keywords

geodesic spacebranched coversfinite Coxeter groupamply lattice-polarized K3 surfacesCAT\((\chi )\) inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.) (53C70) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Deformations of singularities (14B07)

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