Lower Ricci curvature, branching and the bilipschitz structure of uniform Reifenberg spaces
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Colding, Tobias; Naber, Aaron Charles
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We study here limit spaces (M[subscript α], g[subscript α], p[subscript α])
[GH over →] (Y, d[subscript Y], p), where the M[subscript α] have a lower Ricci curvature bound and are volume noncollapsed. Such limits Y may be quite singular, however it is known that there is a subset of full measure R(Y) ⊆ Y, called regular points, along with coverings by the almost regular
points ∩[subscript ε]∪[subscript r] R[subscript ε,r](Y) = R(Y) such that each of the Reifenberg sets R[subscript ε,r](Y) is bi-Hölder homeomorphic
to a manifold. It has been an ongoing question as to the bi-Lipschitz regularity the Reifenberg sets.Our results have two parts in this paper. First we show that each of the sets R[subscript ε,r](Y) are bi-Lipschitz
embeddable into Euclidean space. Conversely, we show the bi-Lipschitz nature of the embedding is sharp. In fact, we construct a limit space Y which is even uniformly Reifenberg, that is, not only is each tangent cone of Y isometric to R[superscript n] but convergence to the tangent cones is at a uniform rate in Y, such that there exists no C[superscript 1,β] embeddings of Y into Euclidean space for any β > 0. Further, despite the
strong tangential regularity of Y, there exists a point y ∈ Y such that every pair of minimizing geodesics beginning at y branches to any order at y. More specifically, given any two unit speed minimizing geodesics γ[superscript 1], γ[subscript 2] beginning at y and any 0 ≤ θ ≤ π, there exists a sequence t[subscript i] → 0 such that the angle ∠ γ[subscript 1](t[subscript i])yγ[subscript 2](t[subscript i]) converges to θ.
Date issued
2013-10Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of MathematicsJournal
Advances in Mathematics
Publisher
Elsevier
Citation
Colding, Tobias Holck, and Aaron Naber. “Lower Ricci Curvature, Branching and the Bilipschitz Structure of Uniform Reifenberg Spaces.” Advances in Mathematics 249 (2013): 348–358.
Version: Original manuscript
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0001-8708
1090-2082