Topology and -regularity theorems on collapsed manifolds with Ricci curvature bounds

DOI10.2140/GT.2016.20.2575MaRDI QIDQ321672zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Aaron Naber, Ruobing Zhang

Publication date 14 October 2016

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1326

zbMATH Keywords

Ricci curvature\(\epsilon\)-regularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of local Riemannian geometry (53B21) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

Abstract: In this paper we discuss and prove $epsilon$-regularity theorems for Einstein manifolds $(M^n,g)$, and more generally manifolds with just bounded Ricci curvature, in the collapsed setting. A key tool in the regularity theory of noncollapsed Einstein manifolds is the following: If $xin{M}^n$ is such that $Vol(B_1(x))>v>0$ and that $B_2(x)$ is sufficiently Gromov-Hausdorff close to a cone space $B_2(0^{n-ell},y^{\ast })subsetmathbb{R}^{n-ell}imesC(Y^{ell-1})$ for $ellleq3$, then in fact $|Rm|leq1$ on $B_1(x)$. No such results are known in the collapsed setting, and in fact it is easy to see without more such results are false. It turns out that the failure of such an estimate is related to topology. Our main theorem is that for the above setting in the collapsed context, either the curvature is bounded, or there are topological constraints on $B_1(x)$. More precisely, using established techniques one can see there exists $epsilon(n)$ such that if $(M^n,g)$ is an Einstein manifold and $B_2(x)$ is $epsilon$-Gromov-Hausdorff close to ball in $B_2(0^{k-ell},z^{\ast })subsetmathbb{R}^{k-ell}imes{Z}^{e}ll$, then the fibered fundamental group $Gamm{a}_{e}psilon(x)equivImage[p{i}_1(B_{e}psilon(x))op{i}_1(B_2(x))]$ is almost nilpotent with $rank(Gamm{a}_{epsilon}(x))leqn-k$. The main result of the this paper states that if $rank(Gamm{a}_{epsilon}(x))=n-k$ is maximal, then $|Rm|leqC$ on $B_1(x)$. In the case when the ball is close to Euclidean, this is both a necessary and sufficient condition. There are generalizations of this result to bounded Ricci curvature and even just lower Ricci curvature.

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