Lower Ricci curvature, branching and the bilipschitz structure of uniform Reifenberg spaces

Tobias Holck Colding*, Aaron Naber

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Abstract

We study here limit spaces (Mα,gα,pα)→GH(Y,dY,p), where the 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 n-ary intersectionεn-ary unionrRε,r(Y)=R(Y) such that each of the Reifenberg sets Rε,r(Y) is bihölder homeomorphic to a manifold. It has been an ongoing question as to the bilipschitz regularity the Reifenberg sets. Our results have two parts in this paper. First we show that each of the sets Rε,r(Y) are bilipschitz embeddable into Euclidean space. Conversely, we show the bilipschitz 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 Rn but convergence to the tangent cones is at a uniform rate in Y, such that there exist no C1,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 γ1, γ2 beginning at y and any 0 ≤ θ ≤ π, there exists a sequence t i → 0 such that the angle ∠γ1(t i)yγ2(t i) converges to θ.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)348-358
Number of pages11
JournalAdvances in Mathematics
Volume249
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 20 2013

Funding

The first author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS 0606629 and NSF FRG grant DMS 0854774 and the second author by an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship .

Keywords

  • Bilipschitz
  • Branching
  • Reifenberg spaces
  • Ricci curvature

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Mathematics

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