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Relating Notions of Convergence in Geometric Analysis

Metric Geometry 2020-06-01 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We relate LpL^p convergence of metric tensors or volume convergence to a given smooth metric to Intrinsic Flat and Gromov-Hausdorff convergence for sequences of Riemannian manifolds. We present many examples of sequences of conformal metrics which demonstrate that these notions of convergence do not agree in general even when the sequence is conformal, gj=fj2g0g_j=f_j^2g_0, to a fixed manifold. We then prove a theorem demonstrating that when sequences of metric tensors on a fixed manifold MM are bounded, (11/j)g0gjKg0(1-1/j)g_0 \le g_j \le K g_0, and either the volumes converge, Volj(M)Vol0(M)\operatorname{Vol}_j(M)\rightarrow \operatorname{Vol}_0(M), or the metric tensors converge in the LpL^p sense, then the Riemannian manifolds (M,gj)(M,g_j) converge in the measured Gromov-Hausdorff and volume preserving Intrinsic Flat sense to (M,g0)(M,g_0).

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@article{arxiv.1911.04522,
  title  = {Relating Notions of Convergence in Geometric Analysis},
  author = {Brian Allen and Christina Sormani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.04522},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

41 pages, 3 figures v2: Updated proof of Theorem 4.4 v3: Three figures added and referee comments addressed. To appear in Nonlinear Analysis