Rectifiability of singular sets of noncollapsed limit spaces with Ricci curvature bounded below

zbMATH Open1469.53083arXiv1805.07988MaRDI QIDQ2662016FDOQ2662016

Authors: Jeff Cheeger, Wen Shuai Jiang, Aaron Naber 

Publication date: 8 April 2021

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the structure of Gromov-Hausdorff limit spaces $(M_i^n,g_i,p_i)stackrel{d}_{GH}longrightarrow(X^n,d,p)$ of Riemannian manifolds satisfying a uniform lower Ricci curvature bound $R{c}_{M_i^n}geq-(n-1)$ as well as the noncollapsing assumption $Vol(B_1(p_i))>v>0$. In such cases, there is a filtration of the singular set, $S_{0}subset{S}_{1}cdots{S}_{n-1}:=S$, where $$x$$; equivalently no tangent cone splits off a Euclidean factor $mathbb{R}^{k+1}$ isometrically. Moreover, by cite{ChCoI}, $dim{S}^{k}leqk$. However, little else has been understood about the structure of the singular set $S$. Our first result for such limit spaces $X^n$ states that $S^k$ is $k$-rectifiable. In fact, we will show that for $k$-a.e. $xin{S}^k$, {it every} tangent cone $X_x$ at $x$ is $k$-symmetric i.e. that $X_x=mathbb{R}^{k}imesC(Y)$ where $C(Y)$ might depend on the particular $X_x$. We use this to show that there exists $epsilon=epsilon(n,v)$, and a $(n-2)$-rectifible set $S_e^{n-2}psilon$, with finite $(n-2)$-dimensional Hausdorff measure $H^{n-2}(S_{e}psilo{n}^{n-2})<C(n,v)$, such that $X^{n}setminus{S}_e^{n-2}psilon$ is bi-H"older equivalent to a smooth riemannian manifold. This improves the regularity results of cite{ChCoI}. Additionally, we will see that tangent cones are unique of a subset of Hausdorff $(n-2)$ dimensional measure zero. Our analysis is based on several new ideas, including a sharp cone-splitting theorem and a geometric transformation theorem, which will allow us to control the degeneration of harmonic functions on these neck regions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07988

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zbMATH Keywords

stratificationHausdorff dimensioncurvaturerectifiabilityRicci

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularity in context of PDEs (35A21) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Stratified sets (58A35)

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