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Lower bounds on Ricci curvature and quantitative behavior of singular sets

Presenter
November 3, 2011
Keywords:
  • Shiing-Shen Chern
  • differential geometry
  • global Riemannian geometry
  • pinching
  • Ricci curvature
  • volume and content
  • Gromov-Hausdorff metric
  • Hausdorff dimension
MSC:
  • 53-xx
  • 53C44
  • 53C45
  • 53C23
  • 53C24
  • 53C25
  • 53C21
  • 53C20
  • 53Cxx
Abstract
This talk represents joint work with Aaron Naber (who will give a closely related talk on harmonic maps and minimal hypersurfaces). Let Y^n denote the Gromov-Hausdorff limit of a sequence of Riemannian manifolds M_i^n with Ricci curvature >= -(n-1) and Vol(B_1(m_i)) >= v>0, for all m_i in M_i^n. For all y in Y^n, every tangent cone Y_y is a metric cone. The stratification S_0 ⊂ S_1 ⊂ ... ⊂ S_(n-2) off the singular set S is defined by: y is in S_k if no Y_y splits off a factor R^(k+1) isometrically. It is known that dim(S_k)