Symmetry gaps in Riemannian geometry and minimal orbifolds

DOI10.4310/JDG/1488503005zbMATH Open1364.53042arXiv1405.2291OpenAlexW2963290346WikidataQ115166317 ScholiaQ115166317MaRDI QIDQ524876FDOQ524876

Authors: Wouter van Limbeek 

Publication date: 26 April 2017

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the size of the isometry group Isom(M, g) of Riemannian manifolds (M, g) as g varies. For M not admitting a circle action, we show that the order of Isom(M, g) can be universally bounded in terms of the bounds on Ricci curvature, diameter, and injectivity radius of M. This generalizes results known for negative Ricci curvature to all manifolds. More generally we establish a similar universal bound on the index of the deck group pi_1(M) in the isometry group Isom(X, g) of the universal cover X in the absence of suitable actions by connected groups. We apply this to characterize locally symmetric spaces by their symmetry in covers. This proves a conjecture of Farb and Weinberger with the additional assumption of bounds on curvature, diameter, and injectivity radius. Further we generalize results of Kazhdan-Margulis and Gromov on minimal orbifolds of nonpositively curved manifolds to arbitrary manifolds with only a purely topological assumption.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2291

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zbMATH Keywords

Ricci curvatureinjectivity radiuscircle actionisometry groupuniversal coverdiameter of a manifoldFarb-Weinberger conjuctureminimal orbifoldsymmetry gap

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

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