The Teichmüller space of pinched negatively curved metrics on a hyperbolic manifold is not contractible
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title: The Teichmüller space of pinched negatively curved metrics on a hyperbolic manifold is not contractible
zbMATH Open document ID: 1171.58003
author: Pedro Ontaneda
author: F. Thomas Farrell
published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series
publication date: 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406132
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review text: In this paper, \(M\) is a closed smooth manifold, \(\mathrm{Diff}(M)\) is the group of smooth diffeomorphisms of \(M\), \(\mathrm{Diff}_0(M)\) is the subgroup of \(\mathrm{Diff}(M)\) of smooth diffeomorphisms that are homotopic to the identity and \(\mathcal{MET}(M)\) is the space of all Riemannian metrics on \(M\) with the smooth topology, on which \(\mathrm{Diff}(M)\) acts by pull-back. The group \(\mathcal{D}(M)=\mathbb{R}^+\times \mathrm{Diff}(M)\) acts of \(\mathcal{MET}(M)\) by scaling and pull-back. \(\mathcal{D}_0(M)\) is the group \(\mathbb{R}^+\times \mathrm{Diff}_0(M)\). The authors call the quotient space \(\mathcal{T}(M)=\mathcal{MET}(M)/\mathcal{D}_0(M)\) the Teichmüller space of metrics on \(M\). Finally, for \(0\leq\epsilon\leq\infty\), \(\mathcal{MET}^{\epsilon}(M)\) denotes the space of all \(\epsilon\)-pinched negatively curved Riemannian metrics on \(M\), that is, the space of metrics for which there exists a positive real number \(\lambda\) such that \(\lambda g\) has all its sectional curvatures in the interval \([-(1+\epsilon),-1]\). The authors call the quotient space \(\mathcal{M}^{\epsilon}(M)=\mathcal{MET}^{\epsilon}(M)/\mathcal{D}(M)\) the moduli space of \(\epsilon\)-pinched negatively curved metrics on \(M\), and the space \(\mathcal{T}^{\epsilon}(M)=\mathcal{MET}^{\epsilon}(M)/\mathcal{D}_0(M)\) the Teichmüller space of \(\epsilon\)-pinched negatively curved metrics on \(M\). The main result of this paper is that if \(M\) is hyperbolic, then the natural inclusion \(\mathcal{T}^{\epsilon}(M)\hookrightarrow \mathcal{T}(M)\) is, in general, not homotopically trivial. More precisely, the authors prove the following Theorem: For any integer \(k_0\geq 1\), there is an integer \(n_0=n_0(k_0)\) such that the following holds. Given \(\epsilon >0\) and a closed hyperbolic \(n\)-manifold \(M\) with \(n\geq n_0\), there is a finite sheeted cover \(N\) of \(M\) such that, for every \(1\leq k\leq k_0\) with \(n+k \equiv 3\) mod \(4\), the map \(\pi_…
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58D27
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M50
zbMATH DE Number: 5578956
zbMATH Keywords: negatively curved manifold
zbMATH Keywords: moduli space
zbMATH Keywords: Teichmüller space
reviewed by: Athanase Papadopoulos
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W2042185944
arXiv ID: math/0406132
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DOI: 10.4007/ANNALS.2009.170.45
description: scientific article