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Metric transformations under collapsing of Riemannian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2015-10-22 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Let (M,g) be a Riemannian manifold with an isometric action of the Lie group G. Let g_G be a left invariant metric on G. Consider the diagonal G action on the product M×GM \times G with the metric g+g_G. In this paper we calculate the formula for the metric h on the quotient space (M×G)/G(M \times G) / G; the map from g to h is the metric transformation. In particular when g is the hyperbolic metric on H^2 and G=S^1, the transformed metric h is Hamilton's cigar soliton metric studied in the Ricci flow.

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@article{arxiv.math/0303122,
  title  = {Metric transformations under collapsing of Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {Bennett Chow and David Glickenstein and Peng Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0303122},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages. This is a revised version with a new reference to previous work of Cheeger