Connectedness properties of the space of complete nonnegatively curved planes

DOI10.1007/S00208-014-1159-7MaRDI QIDQ2516892zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor Belegradek, Jing Hu

Publication date 4 August 2015

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3167

zbMATH Keywords

subharmonic functionsmanifolds of metricsinfinite dimensional topologycomplete metric on \(\mathbb R^2\) of nonnegative sectional curvaturespace of complete nonnegatively curved metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in two dimensions (31A05) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Topology of infinite-dimensional manifolds (57N20)

Abstract: We study the space of complete Riemannian metrics of nonnegative curvature on the plane equipped with the C^k topology. If k is infinite, we show that the space is homeomorphic to the separable Hilbert space. For any k we prove that the space cannot be made disconnected by removing a finite dimensional subset. A similar result holds for the associated moduli space. The proof combines properties of subharmonic functions with results of infinite dimensional topology and dimension theory. A key step is a characterization of the conformal factors that make the standard Euclidean metric on the plane into a complete metric of nonnegative sectional curvature.

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