Regularization via Cheeger deformations

DOI10.1007/S10455-015-9471-3MaRDI QIDQ895460zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Catherine Searle, Pedro Solórzano, Frederick Wilhelm

Publication date 3 December 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05307

zbMATH Keywords

Cheeger deformationnormal homogeneousRiemannian submersiontotally geodesic fiber

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

Abstract: We show that Cheeger deformations regularize $G$--invariant metrics in a very strong sense.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a compact group of isometries of a complete Riemannian manifold \((M,g_M)\). Let \(g_{bi}\) be a bi-invariant metric on \(G\) and let \(t^2g_{bi}+g_M\) be a 1-parameter family of metrics on \(G\times M\). The \textit{Cheeger action} is \(g\cdot(p,m)=(pg^{-1},gm)\). Taking the quotient by the Cheeger action yields a 1-parameter family of metrics \(g_t\) which converges to the original metric as \(t\) tends to infinity. Let \(M^{\mathrm{reg}}\) be the union of the principal orbits. If \(x\in M^{\mathrm{reg}}\), set \(\tilde g_t:=t^{-2}g_t|_{T_xG}+g_t|_{T_xG^\perp}\). This is the so-called \textit{Cheeger deformation} which was first used by Cheeger for perturbing the metric on a non-negatively curved manifold [\textit{J. Cheeger}, J. Differ. Geom. 8, 623--628 (1973; Zbl 0281.53040)]. Here, \(T_xG\) is the tangent space to the principal orbit thru \(x\). The authors show the following. Theorem. For any non-negative integer \(k\) and any \(G\)-invariant pre-compact open subset \(\mathcal{U}\subset M^{\mathrm{reg}}\), as \(t\rightarrow0\), the 1-parameter family \(\tilde g_t|_{\mathcal{U}}\) converges in the \(C^k\) topology to a \(G\)-invariant metric \(\tilde g\) so that the Riemannian submersion from \((\mathcal{U},\tilde g)\) to \( \mathcal{U}/G\) has totally geodesic, normal homogeneous fibers. They also describe the normal homogeneous metrics on the fibers. Section~1 is an introduction to the matter at hand. Section~2 presents notations and conventions, and Section~3 proves the regular structure theorem.

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