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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 S3/GS^3/G. We find it to be 1/2arccos(tan(3π10)3){1/2}\arccos(\frac{\tan(\frac{3 \pi}{10})}{\sqrt3}), 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, Sn/GS^n/G, 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 Sn/GS^n/G is increasing as the cohomogeneity of the group GG increases.

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@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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