Diameters of 3-Sphere Quotients
Differential Geometry
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Let G, a subset of O(4), act isometrically on the 3-sphere. In this article we calculate a lower bound for the diameter of the quotient spaces . We find it to be , which is exactly the value of the lower bound for diameters of the spherical space forms. In the process, we are also able to find a lower bound for diameters for the spherical Aleksandrov spaces, , of cohomogeneities 1 and 2, as well as for cohomogeneity 3 (with some restrictions on the group type). This leads us to conjecture that the diameter of is increasing as the cohomogeneity of the group increases.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0702680,
title = {Diameters of 3-Sphere Quotients},
author = {W. Dunbar and S. Greenwald and J. McGowan and C. Searle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0702680},
year = {2007}
}
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