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Differentiable Rigidity under Ricci curvature lower bound

Differential Geometry 2019-12-19 v2

Abstract

In this article we prove a differentiable rigidity result. Let (Y,g)(Y, g) and (X,g0)(X, g_0) be two closed nn-dimensional Riemannian manifolds (n3n\geqslant 3) and f:YXf:Y\to X be a continuous map of degree 11. We furthermore assume that the metric g0g_0 is real hyperbolic and denote by dd the diameter of (X,g0)(X,g_0). We show that there exists a number ε:=ε(n,d)>0\varepsilon:=\varepsilon (n, d)>0 such that if the Ricci curvature of the metric gg is bounded below by n(n1)-n(n-1) and its volume satisfies \volg(Y)(1+ε)\volg0(X)\vol_g (Y)\leqslant (1+\varepsilon) \vol_{g_0} (X) then the manifolds are diffeomorphic. The proof relies on Cheeger-Colding's theory of limits of Riemannian manifolds under lower Ricci curvature bound.

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@article{arxiv.0805.3845,
  title  = {Differentiable Rigidity under Ricci curvature lower bound},
  author = {Laurent Bessières and Gérard Besson and Gilles Courtois and Sylvain Gallot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.3845},
  year   = {2019}
}

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33 pages, 1 dessin

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