Torus actions on Alexandrov 4-spaces

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

Abstract: We obtain an equivariant classification for orientable, closed, four-dimensional Alexandrov spaces admitting an isometric torus action. This generalizes the equivariant classification of Orlik and Raymond of closed four-dimensional manifolds with torus actions. Moreover, we show that such Alexandrov spaces are equivariantly homeomorphic to

4

-dimensional Riemannian orbifolds with isometric

T^{2}

-actions. We also obtain a partial homeomorphism classification.

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Alexandrov spaces (with curvature bounded from below) are complete length spaces with a lower curvature bound, in the sense of triangle comparison. By Toponogov's Theorem, they generalize complete Riemannian manifolds with a uniform lower curvature bound. Examples of Alexandrov spaces are Riemannian orbifolds (with a lower sectional curvature bound), orbit spaces of isometric actions of compact Lie groups on Riemannian manifolds with sectional curvature bounded from below, and Gromov-Hausdorff limits of sequences of \(n\)-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with a uniform lower bound on their sectional curvature. Given a fixed Lie group \(G\) acting a space, by \textit{equivariant classification} it is meant being able to decide when two spaces with a \(G\)-action are equivariantly homeomorphic. In the present article, the authors obtain the \textit{equivariant classification of effective, isometric \(T^2\)-actions on closed, orientable Alexandrov 4-spaces by determining a complete set of invariants for such spaces}. They also prove that \textit{a closed, orientable Alexandrov 4-space \(X\) admitting an effective, isometric \(T^2\)-action is equivariantly homeomorphic to the underlying topological space of a closed 4-orbifold.} The above results extend the equivariant classification of \(T^2\)-actions on closed 4-manifolds by \textit{P. Orlik} and \textit{F. Raymond} in the orientable case [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 33, 531--559 (1970; Zbl 0216.20202); Topology 13, 89--112 (1974; Zbl 0287.57017)], and by \textit{M. H. Kim} in the non-orientable case [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 335(1), 105--130 (1993)].

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