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Ricci curvature and fundamental groups of effective regular sets

Differential Geometry 2025-07-03 v1

Abstract

For a Gromov-Hausdorff convergent sequence of closed manifolds MinGHXM_i^n\overset{GH}\longrightarrow X with Ric(n1)\mathrm{Ric}\ge-(n-1), diam(Mi)D\mathrm{diam}(M_i)\le D, and vol(Mi)v>0\mathrm{vol}(M_i)\ge v>0, we study the relation between π1(Mi)\pi_1(M_i) and XX. It was known before that there is a surjective homomorphism ϕi:π1(Mi)π1(X)\phi_i:\pi_1(M_i)\to \pi_1(X) by the work of Pan-Wei. In this paper, we construct a surjective homomorphism from the interior of the effective regular set in XX back to MiM_i, that is, ψi:π1(Rϵ,δ)π1(Mi)\psi_i:\pi_1(\mathcal{R}_{\epsilon,\delta}^\circ)\to \pi_1(M_i). These surjective homomorphisms ϕi\phi_i and ψi\psi_i are natural in the sense that their composition ϕiψi\phi_i \circ \psi_i is exactly the homomorphism induced by the inclusion map Rϵ,δX\mathcal{R}_{\epsilon,\delta}^\circ \hookrightarrow X.

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@article{arxiv.2404.07478,
  title  = {Ricci curvature and fundamental groups of effective regular sets},
  author = {Jiayin Pan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.07478},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Submitted to a special issue in honor of Xiaochun Rong on his 70th birthday