Stability of graphical tori with almost nonnegative scalar curvature

DOI10.1007/S00526-020-01790-WMaRDI QIDQ2192935zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Armando J. Cabrera Pacheco, Christian Ketterer, Raquel Perales

Publication date 21 August 2020

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03458

zbMATH Keywords

Ambrosio-Kirchheim integral currentsflat convergenceflat subconvergencegraph torigraphical torusGromov-Hausdorff convergenceintrinsic flat subconvergencenonnegative scalar curvatureweak Sobolev-type metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) 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)

Abstract: By works of Schoen-Yau and Gromov-Lawson any Riemannian manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature and diffeomorphic to a torus is isometric to a flat torus. Gromov conjectured subconvergence of tori with respect to a weak Sobolev type metric when the scalar curvature goes to $0$. We prove flat and intrinsic flat subconvergence to a flat torus for noncollapsing sequences of $3$-dimensional tori $M_j$ that can be realized as graphs of certain functions defined over flat tori satisfying a uniform upper diameter bound and scalar curvature bounds of the form $R_{g_{M_j}}geq-1/j$. We also show that the volume of the manifolds of the convergent subsequence converges to the volume of the limit space. We do so adapting results of Huang-Lee, Huang-Lee-Sormani and Allen-Perales-Sormani. Furthermore, our results also hold when the condition on the scalar curvature of a torus $(M,g_M)$ is replaced by a bound on the quantity $-in{t}_{T}min{R}_{g_M},0dmbox{vol}_{g_T}$, where $M=mboxgraph(f)$, $f:TomathbbR$ and $(T,g_T)$ is a flat torus. Using arguments developed by Alaee, McCormick and the first named author after this work was completed, our results hold for dimensions $ngeq4$ as well.

Review text

The paper in review proves two related conjectures by Gromov and Sormani about flat and intrinsic flat subconvergence to a flat torus. The conjectures state: Conjecture (Gromov): There is a particular Sobolev-type weak metric in the space of \(n\)-manifolds \(X\), such that, for example, tori \((X,g)\) with \(R_g \geq -\epsilon\), when properly normalized, (sub)converge to flat tori for \(\epsilon \to 0\), but these \(X\) may, in general, diverge in stronger metrics. Conjecture (Sormani): Let \(M_j\) be a sequence of Riemannian manifolds diffeomorphic to a 3-torus such that \(\text{vol}(M_j) = V_0\), \(\text{diam}(M_j) \leq D_0\), and \(\text{minA}(M_j) \geq A_0 > 0\), where \(\text{minA}(M_j) = \inf\{\text{vol}(\Sigma): \Sigma \text{ is a closed minimal surface in }M_j\}\). If the scalar curvature of \(M_j\), \(R(M_j)\), satisfies \(R(M_j) \geq -\frac{1}{j}\) then there is a subsequence \(M_{j_k}\) converging in intrinsic flat sense to a flat torus \(T\) and possibly \(\text{vol}(M_{j_k}) \to \text{vol}(T)\). A special class of \(3\)-dimensional graphical Riemannian tori is constructed which can be realized as graphs of certain functions defined over flat tori satisfying a uniform upper diameter bound and scalar curvature bounds of the form \(R_{gM_j}\geq -1/j\) and it is shown that the conjectures hold for this class. By work of Alaee, McCormick and Cabrera Pacheco the results also hold in dimensions \(n \geq 4\). Furthermore it is also shown that the volume of the manifolds of the convergent subsequence converges to the volume of the limit space.

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