Regularity of Einstein manifolds and the codimension 4 conjecture

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2015.182.3.5zbMATH Open1335.53057arXiv1406.6534OpenAlexW1949785703WikidataQ123001723 ScholiaQ123001723MaRDI QIDQ894313FDOQ894313

Jeff Cheeger, Aaron Naber

Publication date: 30 November 2015

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we are concerned with the regularity of noncollapsed Riemannian manifolds $(M^n,g)$ with bounded Ricci curvature, as well as their Gromov-Hausdorff limit spaces $(M_j^n,d_j)stackrel{d}_{GH}longrightarrow(X,d)$, where $d_j$ denotes the Riemannian distance. Our main result is a solution to the codimension $4$ conjecture, namely that $X$ is smooth away from a closed subset of codimension $4$. We combine this result with the ideas of quantitative stratification to prove a priori $L^q$ estimates on the full curvature $|Rm|$ for all $q<2$. In the case of Einstein manifolds, we improve this to estimates on the regularity scale. We apply this to prove a conjecture of Anderson that the collection of $4$-manifolds $(M^4,g)$ with $|Ri{c}_{M^4}|leq3$, $Vol(M)>v>0$, and $diam(M)leqD$ contains at most a finite number of diffeomorphism classes. A local version of this is used to show that noncollapsed $4$-manifolds with bounded Ricci curvature have a priori $L^2$ Riemannian curvature estimates.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6534

zbMATH Keywords

regularityEinstein manifoldsGromov-Hausdorff limitRicci curvatureestimation of Riemannian curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

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