Publications

Publications of SPP2026

On this site you find preprints and publications produced within the projects and with the support of the DFG priority programme „Geometry at Infinity“.

79Alexandrov geometry in the light of symmetry and topology

We show the existence of a solution to the Ricci flow with a compact length space of bounded curvature, i.e., a space that has curvature bounded above and below in the sense of Alexandrov, as its initial condition. We show that this flow converges in the \(C^{1,\alpha}\)-sense to a \(C^{1,\alpha}\)-continuous Riemannian manifold which is isometric to the original metric space. Moreover, we prove that the flow is uniquely determined by the initial condition, up to isometry.

 

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43Singular Riemannian foliations and collapse79Alexandrov geometry in the light of symmetry and topology

We prove that there exist ????????(3)-invariant metrics on Aloff-Wallach spaces W^7_{k1,k2}, as well as ????????(5)-invariant metrics on the Berger space B^{13}, which have positive sectional curvature and evolve under the Ricci flow to metrics with non-positively curved planes.

 

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79Alexandrov geometry in the light of symmetry and topology

We show that Ricci flow does not preserve a range of curvature conditions that interpolate between positive sectional and positive scalar curvature. 

 

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79Alexandrov geometry in the light of symmetry and topology

We introduce a new technique to the study and identification of submanifolds of simply-connected symmetric spaces of compact type based upon an approach computing k-positive Ricci curvature of the ambient manifolds and using this information in order to determine how highly connected the embeddings are. This provides codimension ranges in which the Cartan type of submanifolds satisfying certain conditions which generalize being totally geodesic necessarily equals the one of the ambient manifold. Using results by Guijarro-Wilhelm our approach partly generalizes recent work by Berndt-Olmos on the index conjecture.

 

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79Alexandrov geometry in the light of symmetry and topology