Geometric Structures of Collapsing Riemannian Manifolds I

Details Geometric Structures of Collapsing Riemannian Manifolds I Geometric Structures of Collapsing Riemannian Manifolds I

2008-04-14

arxiv.org/abs/0804.2275v3

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

35 Pages

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Let (M^n_i,g_i,p_i) be a sequence of smooth pointed complete n-dimensional Riemannian Manifolds with uniform bounds on the sectional curvatures and let (X,d,p) be a metric space such that (M^n_i,g_i,p_i) -> (X,d,p) in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense. Let O \subseteq X be the set of points x \in X such that there exists a neighborhood of x which is isometric to an open set in a Riemannian orbifold and let B = O^c be the complement set. Then we have the sharp estimates dim_Haus(B) \leq min{n-5, dim_Haus(X)-3}, and further for arbitrary x \in X we have that x \in O iff a neighborhood of x has bounded Alexandroff curvature. In particular, if n \leq 4 then B is empty and (X,d) is a Riemannian orbifold. Our main application is to prove that a collapsed limit of Einstein four manifolds has a smooth Riemannian orbifold structure away from a finite number of points, and that near these points the curvatures has a -dist^{-2} lower bound.

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