Using simplicial volume to count multi-tangent trajectories of traversing vector fields

DOI10.1007/S10711-015-0104-6MaRDI QIDQ2634860zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hannah Alpert, Gabriel Katz

Publication date 10 February 2016

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02583, http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105849

zbMATH Keywords

amenable groupsimplicial normsimplicial volumetraversing vector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Stratifications in topological manifolds (57N80) Singularities of vector fields, topological aspects (58K45)

Abstract: For a non-vanishing gradient-like vector field on a compact manifold $X^{n+1}$ with boundary, a discrete set of trajectories may be tangent to the boundary with reduced multiplicity $n$, which is the maximum possible. (Among them are trajectories that are tangent to $partialX$ exactly $n$ times.) We prove a lower bound on the number of such trajectories in terms of the simplicial volume of $X$ by adapting methods of Gromov, in particular his "amenable reduction lemma". We apply these bounds to vector fields on hyperbolic manifolds.

Review text

In this article, in the setting of compact manifolds with boundary, the authors study the trajectories of a ``traversing vector field (i.e., non-vanishing vector field for which the trajectory is a closed segment or a singleton of the boundary). More precisely, they establish a lower bound for the number of such trajectories which intersect the boundary with the maximum reduced multiplicity. The main tool used is a method devised by Gromov, adapted by the authors to the framework of traversally generic vector fields (which are known to form an open and dense subset of the general traversing vector fields). The lower bound is expressed in terms of the simplicial volume and a constant which depends on the dimension of the manifold. Concerning the constant, several possible improvements are pointed out in the final part of the paper. The authors also present a setting where the result has a nice form. They consider manifolds obtained by removing an open set with certain nice properties from a closed, oriented hyperbolic manifold. In this case the simplicial volume can be replaced by the classical volume of the manifold.

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