Lower bounds of Lipschitz constants on foliations

DOI10.1007/S00209-018-2186-YMaRDI QIDQ2272955zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Guangxiang Su

Publication date 17 September 2019

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06967

zbMATH Keywords

Bochner LaplacianBott connectionConnes fibrationdegree of a mapfoliationLipschitz constantscalar curvaturespherespin manifoldspinor bundlesub-Dirac operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) 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) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65)

Abstract: In this paper we consider Llarull's theorem in the foliation case and get a lower bound of the Lipschitz constant of the map $Mo{S}^n$ in the foliation case under the spin condition.

Review text

The normalized scalar curvature \(\tilde{k}_g\) of an \(n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold \((M, g)\) is defined by \(\tilde{k}_g=\frac{k_g}{n(n-1)}\), where \(k_g\) is the usual scalar curvature. In [Math. Ann. 310, No. 1, 55--71 (1998; Zbl 0895.53037)], \textit{M. Llarull} proved the following theorem which confirms an older conjecture of M. Gromov: If \((M, g)\) is a compact spin manifold of dimension \(n\), and if \(f:(M, g)\rightarrow (S^n, g_0)\) is \(1\)-contracting (that is, \(\|\mathrm{d}f(v)\|\le \|v\|\) for all \(v\in \mathrm{T}M\)) and of non-zero degree, then either there exists \(x\in M\) with \(\tilde{k}_g(x)<1\), or \(M\equiv S^n\) and \(f\) is an isometry. (Here, \((S^n, g_0)\) denotes the \(n\)-dimensional Euclidean unit sphere with its standard metric.) In this paper, the author generalizes this theorem to the case in which \(M\) has a foliation \(F\) and \(f\) is \(1\)-contracting on \(F\). Then, there exists \(x\in M\) such that the normalized leafwise scalar curvature at \(x\) (see [\textit{W. Zhang}, Ann. Math. (2) 185, No. 3, 1035--1068 (2017; Zbl 1404.53038)]) is less or equal to \(1\).

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