On three-dimensional Alexandrov spaces

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNU101zbMATH Open1350.53089arXiv1307.3929OpenAlexW2962813570MaRDI QIDQ3454232FDOQ3454232

Luis Guijarro, Fernando Galaz-García

Publication date: 24 November 2015

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study three-dimensional Alexandrov spaces with a lower curvature bound, focusing on extending three classical results on three-dimensional manifolds: First, we show that a closed three-dimensional Alexandrov space of positive curvature, with at least one topological singularity, must be homeomorphic to the suspension of the real projective plane; we use this to classify, up to homeomorphism, closed, positively curved Alexandrov spaces of dimension three. Second, we classify closed three-dimensional Alexandrov spaces of nonnegative curvature. Third, we study the well-known Poincar'e Conjecture in dimension three, in the context of Alexandrov spaces, in the two forms it is usually formulated for manifolds. We first show that the only three-dimensional Alexandrov space that is also a homotopy sphere is the 3-sphere; then we give examples of closed, geometric, simply connected three-dimensional Alexandrov spaces for five of the eight Thurston geometries, proving along the way the impossibility of getting such examples for the Nil, $widetildemathrm{SL}_2(mathbbR)$ and Sol geometries. We conclude the paper by proving the analogue of the geometrization conjecture for closed three-dimensional Alexandrov spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3929

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zbMATH Keywords

homotopy spheregeometrizationAlexandrov spaceThurston geometryAlexandrov curvature bounded below

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45) Synthetic differential geometry (51K10)

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