Local estimate on convexity radius and decay of injectivity radius in a Riemannian manifold

DOI10.1142/S0219199717500602MaRDI QIDQ4686473zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Shicheng Xu

Publication date 10 October 2018

Published in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03269

zbMATH Keywords

convexity radiusdecay of injectivity radiusfocal radius

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: In this paper we prove the following pointwise and curvature-free estimates on convexity radius, injectivity radius and local behavior of geodesics in a complete Riemannian manifold $M$: 1) the convexity radius of $p$, $operatornameconv(p)geminfrac12operatornameinj(p),operatornamefoc(B_{operatornameinj(p)}(p))$, where $operatornameinj(p)$ is the injectivity radius of $p$ and $operatornamefoc(B_r(p))$ is the focal radius of open ball centered at $p$ with radius $r$; 2) for any two points $p,q$ in $M$, $operatornameinj(q)geminoperatornameinj(p),operatornameconj(q)-d(p,q),$ where $operatornameconj(q)$ is the conjugate radius of $q$; 3) for any $0<r<minoperatornameinj(p),frac12operatornameconj(B_{operatornameinj(p)}(p))$, any (not necessarily minimizing) geodesic in $B_r(p)$ has length $le2r$. We also clarify two different concepts on convexity radius and give examples to illustrate that the one more frequently used in literature is not continuous.

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