Curvature, diameter and bounded Betti numbers

DOI10.1007/S11401-005-0398-ZMaRDI QIDQ2431985zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jyh-Yang Wu, Zhongmin Shen

Publication date 24 October 2006

Published in Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9912123

zbMATH Keywords

cohomologydiameterRicci curvaturesingular cochains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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: Two main theorems are proved in this paper. Theorem 1: There is a constant C(n, D) depending only on n and D such that for a closed Riemannian n-manifold satisfying Ric > -(n-1) and Diam < D, the ith bounded Betti number is bounded by C(n, D). Here the ith bounded Betti number is defined as the dimension of the image of the ith bounded cohomology in the ith real cohomology. Theorem 2: There are only finitely many isometric isomorphism types of bounded cohomology groups among closed Riemannian n-manifolds satisfying K > -1 and Diam < D. The dimension of the ith bounded cohomology might be infinite. It follows from Theorem 2 that if a closed Riemannian n-manifold satiafies K > -1 and Diam < D, then the dimension of the ith bounded cohomology is either infinite or bounded by a constant C(n, D) depending only on n and D.

Review text

If \(X\) is a topological space, the bounded part of the cohomology of \(X\) is the subspace of \(H^{\ast }(X)\) represented by singular cochains \(c\) for which the values on the singular simplices are bounded. Let \(\widetilde{\beta}^{i}\) be the rank of the bounded part of \(H^{i}(X).\) The main result of this paper is that there is a constant \(C(n,D)\) so that for a closed Riemannian manifold \(M\) of dimension \(n\) with Ricci curvature \(\geq -(n-1)\) and diameter \(\leq D\) the sum of the Betti numbers \(\widetilde{\beta} ^{i}\) is bounded by \(C(n,D).\)

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