Existence of polarized F-structures on collapsed manifolds with bounded curvature and diameter

Jeff Cheeger, Xiaochun Rong

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Abstract

We study the class of collapsed Riemannian n-manifolds with bounded sectional curvature and diameter. Our main result asserts that there is a constant. δ (n, d) > 0, such that if a compact n-manifold has bounded curvature, |K Mn| ≤ 1, bounded diameter, diam(Mn) ≤ d and sufficiently small volume, Vol(Mn) ≤ δ (n, d), then it admits a mixed polarized F-structure. As a consequence, infg Vol(Mn . g) = 0, where the infimum is taken over all metrics with |K (Mn, g) | ≤ 1. This assertion can be viewed as a weakened version of Gromov's "critical volume" conjecture.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)411-429
Number of pages19
JournalGeometric and Functional Analysis
Volume6
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1996

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analysis
  • Geometry and Topology

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