Homotopy groups of the observer moduli space of Ricci positive metrics

DOI10.2140/GT.2019.23.3003zbMATH Open1429.53053arXiv1712.05937OpenAlexW3104884309MaRDI QIDQ2279149FDOQ2279149

Authors: B. I. Botvinnik, Mark Walsh, D. J. Wraith 

Publication date: 12 December 2019

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The observer moduli space of Riemannian metrics is the quotient of the space $mathcalR(M)$ of all Riemannian metrics on a manifold $M$ by the group of diffeomorphisms $mathrm{Diff}_{x_0}(M)$ which fix both a basepoint $x_0$ and the tangent space at $x_0$. The group $mathrm{Diff}_{x_0}(M)$ acts freely on $mathcalR(M)$ providing $M$ is connected. This offers certain advantages over the classic moduli space, which is the quotient by the full diffeomorphism group. Results due to Botvinnik, Hanke, Schick and Walsh, and to Hanke, Schick and Steimle have demonstrated that the higher homotopy groups of the observer moduli space $mathcal{M}_{x_0}^{s>0}(M)$ of positive scalar curvature metrics are, in many cases, non-trivial. The aim in the current paper is to establish similar results for the moduli space $mathcal{M}_{x_0}^{mathrmRic>0}(M)$ of metrics with positive Ricci curvature. In particular we show that for a given $k$, there are infinite order elements in the homotopy group $p{i}_{4k}mathcal{M}_{x_0}^{mathrmRic>0}(S^n)$ provided the dimension $n$ is odd and sufficiently large. In establishing this we make use of a gluing result of Perelman. We provide full details of the proof of this gluing theorem, which we believe have not appeared before in the literature. We also extend this to a family gluing theorem for Ricci positive manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05937

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zbMATH Keywords

moduli spaceRiemannian metricspositive Ricci curvatureHatcher bundlesPerelman gluing construction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Homotopy groups of special spaces (55Q52) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

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