Cohomogeneity one Alexandrov spaces

Abstract: We obtain a structure theorem for closed, cohomogeneity one Alexandrov spaces and we classify closed, cohomogeneity one Alexandrov spaces in dimensions 3 and 4. As a corollary, we obtain the classification of closed,

n

-dimensional, cohomogeneity one Alexandrov spaces admitting an isometric

T^{n - 1}

action. In contrast to the 1- and 2-dimensional cases, where it is known that an Alexandrov space is a topological manifold, in dimension 3 the classification contains, in addition to the known cohomogeneity one manifolds, the spherical suspension of

R P^{2}

, which is not a manifold.

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Let \(X\) denote a closed Alexandrov space with an effective isometric \(G\) action of cohomogeneity one. To state the first result here, let \(H\) denote the principal isotropy, let \(N(H)\) be the normalizer of \(H\) and let \(X/G\) be the orbit space of the action. It is proved that (i) if \(X/G\) is an interval, then \(X\) is the union of two fiber bundles over the two singular orbits whose fibres are cones over positively curved homogeneous spaces and (ii) if \(X/G\) is a circle, then \(X\) is equivalently homeomorphic to a \(G/H\)-bundle over a circle with structure \(N(H)/H\) and in particular \(X\) is a manifold. The second result states that, if \(X\) is 3-dimensional, then \(G\) is \(SO(3)\) or \(T^2\) and the only non-manifold is the spherical suspension of \(\mathbb RP^2\). As a corollary, a classification of closed, \(n\)-dimensional, cohomogeneity one Alexandrov spaces admitting an isometric \(T^{n-1}\) action is obtained.

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