Quantitative null-cobordism
Authors:
Gregory R. Chambers, Dominic Dotterrer, Fedor Manin and Shmuel Weinberger; with an appendix by Fedor Manin; with an appendix by Shmuel Weinberger
Journal:
J. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (2018), 1165-1203
MSC (2010):
Primary 53C23; Secondary 57R75
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/jams/903
Published electronically:
July 10, 2018
MathSciNet review:
3836564
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For a given null-cobordant Riemannian $n$-manifold, how does the minimal geometric complexity of a null-cobordism depend on the geometric complexity of the manifold? Gromov has conjectured that this dependence should be linear. We show that it is at most a polynomial whose degree depends on $n$. In the appendix the bound is improved to one that is $O(L^{1+\varepsilon })$ for every $\varepsilon >0$.
This construction relies on another of independent interest. Take $X$ and $Y$ to be sufficiently nice compact metric spaces, such as Riemannian manifolds or simplicial complexes. Suppose $Y$ is simply connected and rationally homotopy equivalent to a product of Eilenberg–MacLane spaces, for example, any simply connected Lie group. Then two homotopic $L$-Lipschitz maps $f,g:X \to Y$ are homotopic via a $CL$-Lipschitz homotopy. We present a counterexample to show that this is not true for larger classes of spaces $Y$.
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Additional Information
Gregory R. Chambers
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005
MR Author ID:
1075973
Email:
gchambers@rice.edu
Dominic Dotterrer
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
MR Author ID:
1008848
Email:
dominicd@cs.stanford.edu
Fedor Manin
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
MR Author ID:
1165933
ORCID:
0000-0002-4545-6998
Email:
manin@math.toronto.edu
Shmuel Weinberger
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
MR Author ID:
181430
Email:
shmuel@math.uchicago.edu
Received by editor(s):
December 21, 2016
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
July 24, 2017, January 21, 2018, and May 18, 2018
Published electronically:
July 10, 2018
Additional Notes:
The first author was partially supported by NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship PDF-487617-2016.
The fourth author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-1510178.
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