Isometric immersions of RCD(K,N) spaces via heat kernels

DOI10.1007/S00526-023-02460-3MaRDI QIDQ6399993arXivFDO

Authors Zhangkai Huang

Publication date 24 May 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Abstract: Given an RCD$(K,N)$ space $(X,mathsfd,mathfrakm)$, one can use its heat kernel $ho$ to map it into the $L^2$ space by a locally Lipschitz map $Ph{i}_t(x):=ho(x,cdot,t)$. The space $(X,mathsfd,mathfrakm)$ is said to be an isometrically heat kernel immersing space, if each $Ph{i}_t$ is an isometric immersion {}{after a normalization}. A main result states that any compact isometrically heat kernel immersing RCD$(K,N)$ space is isometric to an unweighted closed smooth Riemannian manifold. This is justified by a more general result: if a compact non-collapsed RCD$(K,N)$ space has an isometrically immersing eigenmap, then the space is isometric to an unweighted closed Riemannian manifold, which greatly improves a regularity result in cite{H21} by Honda. As an application of these results, we give a $C^{i}nfty$-compactness theorem for a certain class of Riemannian manifolds with a curvature-dimension-diameter bound and an isometrically immersing eigenmap.

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