Relatively maximum volume rigidity in Alexandrov geometry

DOI10.2140/PJM.2012.259.387MaRDI QIDQ692398zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nan Li, Xiaochun Rong

Publication date 5 December 2012

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4611, http://msp.org/pjm/2012/259-2/p08.xhtml

zbMATH Keywords

Alexandrov spaceradiusrigiditystabilityvolume

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Rigidity results (53C24) Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45)

Abstract: Given a compact Alexadrov $n$-space $Z$ with curvature curv $gekappa$, and let $f:ZoX$ be a distance non-increasing onto map to another Alexandrov $n$-space with curv $gekappa$. The relative volume rigidity conjecture says that if $X$ achieves the relative maximal volume i.e. $vol(Z)=vol(X)$, then $X$ is isometric to $Z/sim$, where $z,z^{\prime }inpartialZ$ and $zsim{z}^{\prime }$ if only if $f(z)=f(z^{\prime })$. We will partially verify this conjecture, and give a classification for compact Alexandrov $n$-spaces with relatively maximal volume. We will also give an elementary proof for a pointed version of Bishop-Gromov relative volume comparison with rigidity in Alexandrov geometry.

Review text

Let \(\mathrm{ALex}^n(\kappa)\) be the set of compact Alexandrov \(n\)-spaces with \(\mathrm{curv}\geq \kappa\), \(\kappa > 0\). The authors establish several results related to the following conjecture: Let \(Z,X \in\mathrm{ALex}^n(\kappa)\) and \(f:Z \rightarrow X\) a distance-nondecreasing and surjective map. If \(\mathrm{vol}Z =\mathrm{vol}X\) then \(X\) is isometric to a gluing space produced from \(Z\) along its boundary \(\partial Z\) and \(f\) is length-preserving. In particular, \(Z\) is isometric to \(X\) if \(\partial Z = \emptyset\) or if \(f\) is surjective. The following result confirms this conjecture under additional conditions on \(f\). Namely, let \(Z,X \in\mathrm{ALex}^n(\kappa), f\) be as above and, in addition, for any \(\delta >0, f^{-1}(X^{\delta})\subseteq Z^{\tau(\delta)}\). Then \(f\) is an isometry. Here, \(\tau(\delta)\) is a function such that \(\tau(\delta)\rightarrow 0\) as \(\delta \rightarrow 0\). The authors also provide several interesting results extending volume comparison estimates of Bishop-Gromov and Burago-Gromov-Perelman.

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