Quantitative nullhomotopy and rational homotopy type

DOI10.1007/S00039-018-0450-2zbMATH Open1408.57023arXiv1611.03513OpenAlexW3098745314WikidataQ129928859 ScholiaQ129928859MaRDI QIDQ724263FDOQ724263

Authors: Gregory R. Chambers, Fedor Manin, Shmuel Weinberger 

Publication date: 25 July 2018

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In cite{GrOrang}, Gromov asks the following question: given a nullhomotopic map $f:S^{m}o{S}^n$ of Lipschitz constant $L$, how does the Lipschitz constant of an optimal nullhomotopy of $f$ depend on $L$, $m$, and $n$? We establish that for fixed $m$ and $n$, the answer is at worst quadratic in $L$. More precisely, we construct a nullhomotopy whose emph{thickness} (Lipschitz constant in the space variable) is $C(m,n)(L+1)$ and whose emph{width} (Lipschitz constant in the time variable) is $C(m,n)(L+1{)}^2$. More generally, we prove a similar result for maps $f:XoY$ for any compact Riemannian manifold $X$ and $Y$ a compact simply connected Riemannian manifold in a class which includes complex projective spaces, Grassmannians, and all other simply connected homogeneous spaces. Moreover, for all simply connected $Y$, asymptotic restrictions on the size of nullhomotopies are determined by rational homotopy type.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03513

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zbMATH Keywords

Sullivan minimal modelLipschitz homotopy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Rational homotopy theory (55P62) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65) Extension and compression of mappings in algebraic topology (55S36)

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