Differentiable rigidity under Ricci curvature lower bound

DOI10.1215/00127094-1507272MaRDI QIDQ662417zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Besson, Gilles Courtois, Sylvestre (Sylvain) Gallot, L. Bessières

Publication date 22 February 2012

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3845

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic manifoldlimits of Riemannian manifoldsRicci curvaturerigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Rigidity results (53C24) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

Abstract: In this article we prove a differentiable rigidity result. Let $(Y,g)$ and $(X,g_0)$ be two closed $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds ($ngeqslant3$) and $f:YoX$ be a continuous map of degree $1$. We furthermore assume that the metric $g_0$ is real hyperbolic and denote by $d$ the diameter of $(X,g_0)$. We show that there exists a number $varepsilon:=varepsilon(n,d)>0$ such that if the Ricci curvature of the metric $g$ is bounded below by $-n(n-1)$ and its volume satisfies $vo{l}_g(Y)leqslant(1+varepsilon)vo{l}_{g_0}(X)$ then the manifolds are diffeomorphic. The proof relies on Cheeger-Colding's theory of limits of Riemannian manifolds under lower Ricci curvature bound.

Review text

This article is devoted to a proof of the following: Theorem. Given any integer \(n \geq 3\) and a real number \(d > 0\), there exists an \(\epsilon(n,d) > 0\) such that the following holds. Suppose that \((X,g_0)\) is an \(n\)-dimensional closed hyperbolic manifold with diameter \(\leq d\) and that \(Y\) is a closed manifold that dominates \(X\), meaning that there exists a degree-one map \(f: Y \rightarrow X\). Then \(Y\) has a metric \(g\) such that \[ \text{Ric}_g \geq -(n-1)g \quad \text{and} \quad \text{vol}_g(Y) \leq (1+\epsilon) \text{vol}_{g_0}(X) \] if and only if \(f\) is homotopic to a diffeomorphism. The proof relies on the theory of limits of Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below developed in a series of papers by \textit{J. Cheeger} and \textit{T. H. Colding} [Ann. Math. (2) 144, No. 1, 189--237 (1996; Zbl 0865.53037); J. Differ. Geom. 46, No. 3, 406--480 (1997; Zbl 0902.53034); J. Differ. Geom. 54, No. 1, 13--35 (2000; Zbl 1027.53042)]. This theorem improves earlier work of the authors [\textit{G. Besson}, \textit{G. Courtois} and \textit{S. Gallot}, Geom. Funct. Anal. 5, No. 5, 731--799 (1995; Zbl 0851.53032); \textit{L. Bessières}, Comment. Math. Helv. 73, No. 3, 443--479 (1998; Zbl 0909.53024)].

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