Orbifold homeomorphism finiteness based on geometric constraints

DOI10.1007/S10455-011-9270-4MaRDI QIDQ658362zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Emily Proctor

Publication date 12 January 2012

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.2724

zbMATH Keywords

Alexandrov spacediameterLaplace isospectral orbifoldssectional curvaturespectral geometryvolume

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Isospectrality (58J53)

Abstract: We show that any collection of n-dimensional orbifolds with sectional curvature and volume uniformly bounded below, diameter bounded above, and with only isolated singular points contains orbifolds of only finitely many orbifold homeomorphism types. This is a generalization to the orbifold category of a similar result for manifolds proven by Grove, Petersen, and Wu. It follows that any Laplace isospectral collection of orbifolds with sectional curvature uniformly bounded below and having only isolated singular points also contains only finitely many orbifold homeomorphism types. The main steps of the argument are to show that any sequence from the collection has subsequence that converges to an orbifold, and then to show that the homeomorphism between the underlying spaces of the limit orbifold and an orbifold from the subsequence that is guaranteed by Perelman's stability theorem must preserve orbifold structure.

Review text

The author proves the following generalization of a result by Grove, Petersen and Wu in the orbifold category. For any \(k\in \mathbb{R}\), \(D>0\), \(v>0\) and \(n\in \mathbb{N}\), the collection of closed \(n\)-dimensional orbifolds having sectional curvature universally bounded from below by \(k\), diameter bounded from above by \(D\), volume bounded from below by \(v\), and having only isolated singular points, contains orbifolds of only finitely many orbifold category homeomorphism-types. As a consequence, it follows that any collection of Laplace isospectral orbifolds having a uniform lower bound on the sectional curvature and only isolated singular points contains orbifolds of only finitely many orbifold category homeomorphism-types. After presenting background information, the author proves the existence of a special type of orbifold chart above each of the orbifolds in the considered collection. Each of these charts lies above a ball of a certain universally fixed radius about a singular point. The author obtains a partition of the entire collection into a finite number of subcollections such that the orbifolds in each subcollection have the same number and types of singular points. Then, any sequence of orbifolds from this subcollection must have a convergent subsequence. The limit space carries an orbifold structure with the same number and types of singular points as orbifolds in the subsequence. The homeomorphism guaranteed by the Perelman stability theorem is an orbifold category homeomorphism.

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