Lower Ricci curvature, branching and the bilipschitz structure of uniform Reifenberg spaces

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2013.09.005MaRDI QIDQ2450802zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tobias Holck Colding, Aaron Naber

Publication date 16 May 2014

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2184

zbMATH Keywords

branchingRicci curvaturebi-LipschitzReifenberg spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We study here limit spaces $(M_{a}lpha,g_{a}lpha,p_{a}lpha)stackrelGHightarrow(Y,d_Y,p)$, where the $M_{a}lpha$ have a lower Ricci curvature bound and are volume noncollapsed. Such limits $Y$ may be quite singular, however it is known that there is a subset of full measure $cR(Y)subseteqY$, called {it regular} points, along with coverings by the almost regular points $ca{p}_{e}psiloncu{p}_{r}c{R}_{epsilon,r}(Y)=cR(Y)$ such that each of the {it Reifenberg sets} $c{R}_{epsilon,r}(Y)$ is bi-H"older homeomorphic to a manifold. It has been an ongoing question as to the bi-Lipschitz regularity the Reifenberg sets. Our results have two parts in this paper. First we show that each of the sets $c{R}_{epsilon,r}(Y)$ are bi-Lipschitz embeddable into Euclidean space. Conversely, we show the bi-Lipschitz nature of the embedding is sharp. In fact, we construct a limit space $Y$ which is even uniformly Reifenberg, that is, not only is each tangent cone of $Y$ isometric to $R{R}^n$ but convergence to the tangent cones is at a uniform rate in $Y$, such that there exists no $$ embeddings of $Y$ into Euclidean space for any $$. Further, despite the strong tangential regularity of $Y$, there exists a point $yinY$ such that every pair of minimizing geodesics beginning at $y$ branches to any order at $y$. More specifically, given {it any} two unit speed minimizing geodesics $gamm{a}_1$, $gamm{a}_2$ beginning at $y$ and {it any} $0leqhetaleqpi$, there exists a sequence $t_{i}o0$ such that the angle $anglegamm{a}_1(t_i)ygamm{a}_2(t_i)$ converges to $heta$.

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