Smooth convergence away from singular sets

DOI10.4310/CAG.2013.V21.N1.A2MaRDI QIDQ357205zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Sajjad Lakzian, Christina Sormani

Publication date 30 July 2013

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0875

zbMATH Keywords

Gromov-Hausdorff convergencemetric completion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Abstract: We consider sequences of metrics, $g_j$, on a Riemannian manifold, $M$, which converge smoothly on compact sets away from a singular set $SsubsetM$, to a metric, $g_{i}nfty$, on $MsetminusS$. We prove theorems which describe when $M_j=(M,g_j)$ converge in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense to the metric completion, $(M_{i}nfty,d_{i}nfty)$, of $(MsetminusS,g_{i}nfty)$. To obtain these theorems, we study the intrinsic flat limits of the sequences. A new method, we call hemispherical embedding, is applied to obtain explicit estimates on the Gromov-Hausdorff and Intrinsic Flat distances between Riemannian manifolds with diffeomorphic subdomains. Seven years after the publication of this paper in CAG, Brian Allen discovered a counter example to the published statement of Theorem 1.3. Note that Theorem 4.6 (which is the key theorem cited in other papers) remains correct. We have added an hypothesis to correct the statement of Theorem 1.3 and its consequences. This v4 includes corrections in blue, an erratum at the end of the introduction, and Brian Allen's example in an appendix. An erratum is also being sent to the journal.

Review text

The paper under review investigates the situation when a sequence \(g_j\) of Riemannian metrics on a manifold \(M\) converges smoothly (as tensors) outside some set \(S\) to \(g_\infty\) and it asks under which assumptions \((M,g_i)\) Gromov-Hausdorff converges to the metric completion of \((M-S,g_\infty)\). The authors prove a number of theorems and present a number of examples with and without Ricci curvature bounds. One fairly general result is the following:NEWLINENEWLINEIf a sequence of oriented compact Riemannian manifolds with uniform lower curvature bounds and uniformly bounded diameter converges smoothly away from a codimension 2 submanifold \(S\) and if there exists a connected precompact exhaustion \(W_j\) of \(M-S\) with \(\mathrm{Vol}_{g_i}(\partial W_j)\) uniformly bounded and \(\mathrm{Vol}_{g_i}(M-W_j)\leq V_j\) for some sequence \(V_j\rightarrow 0\), then \((M,g_i)\) Gromov-Hausdorff converges to the metric completion of \((M-S,g_\infty)\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe paper is well written with many examples and many pictures.

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