Collapsing manifolds with boundary

DOI10.1007/S10711-010-9483-XMaRDI QIDQ605083zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeremy Wong

Publication date 23 November 2010

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3483

zbMATH Keywords

absolute Poincare duality spaceAlexandrov spacecollapsedisk bundlegeodesic terminalgeodesically extendibleGromov-Hausdorff topologymanifold with boundaryToponogov's splitting theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Synthetic differential geometry (51K10) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

Abstract: This manuscript studies manifolds-with-boundary collapsing in the Gromov-Hausdorff topology. The main aim is an understanding of the relationship of the topology and geometry of a limiting sequence of manifolds-with-boundary to that of a limit space, which is presumed to be without geodesic terminals. The main result establishes a disc bundle structure for any manifold-with-boundary having two-sided bounds on sectional curvature and second fundamental form, and a lower bound on intrinsic injectivity radius, which is sufficiently close in the Gromov-Hausdorff topology to a closed manifold. The second main result identifies Gromov-Hausdorff limits of certain sequences of manifolds-with-boundary as Alexandrov spaces of curvature bounded below.

Review text

This work examines the collapsing in the Gromov-Hausdorff topology of manifolds with boundary. There are several types of collapsing; this is made precise by stipulating that certain injectivity radii tend to zero. There is interior collapse (rounded cone tends to cone), boundary collapse, and boundary contact. The normal direction is a preferred direction; a factorization of the collapse is given. The paper examines manifolds with boundary extrinsically by extending their boundaries via a codimension 0 extension and uses a non-smooth gluing procedure. Let \((M_i^n,\partial M_i)\) be a sequence of Riemannian manifolds with boundary which converge to \(X\) in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense. The first group of results provides a fiber bundle structure to the \(M_i\). A disk bundle structure is established under certain conditions on sectional curvature, second fundamental form, and injectivity radius. Assume that \(X\) is a compact absolute Poincare duality space or that \(X\) is geodesically extendible. Given certain additional natural assumptions on the \(M_i\), it is shown that \(D^1 \rightarrow M_i\rightarrow X\) is a locally trivial fiber bundle. In the special case that \(X\) is a point, if certain natural assumptions are met, it is shown the \(M_i\) are homeomorphic to \(D^n\). Other important results are given as well which yield metric information about limits of manifolds with boundary - certain limits are characterized as Alexandrov spaces of curvature bounded below and collapsing with an ambient manifold is discussed. A rough version of Toponogov's splitting theorem is established and the Gromov-Hausdorff limits of certain sequences of manifolds with non-convex boundaries as Alexandrov spaces of curvature bounded below is given. A number of examples illustrating these phenomena are presented.

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