Lower bounds on Ricci curvature and quantitative behavior of singular sets
Presenter
November 3, 2011
Keywords:
- Shiing-Shen Chern
- differential geometry
- global Riemannian geometry
- pinching
- Ricci curvature
- volume and content
- Gromov-Hausdorff metric
- Hausdorff dimension
MSC:
- 53-xx
- 53C44
- 53C45
- 53C23
- 53C24
- 53C25
- 53C21
- 53C20
- 53Cxx
Abstract
This talk represents joint work with Aaron Naber (who will give a closely related talk on harmonic maps and minimal hypersurfaces). Let Y^n denote the Gromov-Hausdorff limit of a sequence of Riemannian manifolds M_i^n with Ricci curvature >= -(n-1) and Vol(B_1(m_i)) >= v>0, for all m_i in M_i^n. For all y in Y^n, every tangent cone Y_y is a metric cone. The stratification S_0 ⊂ S_1 ⊂ ... ⊂ S_(n-2) off the singular set S is defined by: y is in S_k if no Y_y splits off a factor R^(k+1) isometrically. It is known that dim(S_k)