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Macroscopic band width inequalities

Differential Geometry 2022-05-24 v3 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Inspired by Gromov's work on 'Metric inequalities with scalar curvature' we establish band width inequalities for Riemannian bands of the form (V=M×[0,1],g)(V=M\times[0,1],g), where Mn1M^{n-1} is a closed manifold. We introduce a new class of orientable manifolds we call filling enlargeable and prove: If MM is filling enlargeable and all unit balls in the universal cover of (V,g)(V,g) have volume less than a constant 12εn\frac{1}{2}\varepsilon_n, then width(V,g)1width(V,g)\leq1. We show that if a closed orientable manifold is enlargeable or aspherical, then it is filling enlargeable. Furthermore we establish that whether a closed orientable manifold is filling enlargeable or not only depends on the image of the fundamental class under the classifying map of the universal cover.

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@article{arxiv.1911.13000,
  title  = {Macroscopic band width inequalities},
  author = {Daniel Räde},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.13000},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Minor revisions, To appear in Algebraic and Geometric Topology

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