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Principal bundle structure of the space of metric measure spaces

Metric Geometry 2024-11-20 v1

Abstract

We study the topological structure of the space X\mathcal{X} of isomorphism classes of metric measure spaces equipped with the box or concentration topologies. We consider the scale-change action of the multiplicative group R+\mathbb{R}_+ of positive real numbers on X\mathcal{X}, which has a one-point metric measure space, say *, as only one fixed-point. We prove that the R+\mathbb{R}_+-action on X:=X{}\mathcal{X}_* := \mathcal{X} \setminus \{*\} admits the structure of nontrivial and locally trivial principal R+\mathbb{R}_+-bundle over the quotient space. Our bundle R+XX/R+\mathbb{R}_+ \to \mathcal{X}_* \to \mathcal{X}_*/\mathbb{R}_+ is a curious example of a nontrivial principal fiber bundle with contractible fiber. A similar statement is obtained for the pyramidal compactification of X\mathcal{X}, where we completely determine the structure of the fixed-point set of the R+\mathbb{R}_+-action on the compactification.

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@article{arxiv.2304.06880,
  title  = {Principal bundle structure of the space of metric measure spaces},
  author = {Daisuke Kazukawa and Hiroki Nakajima and Takashi Shioya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.06880},
  year   = {2024}
}

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18 pages