Harmonic Forms, Price Inequalities, and Benjamini-Schramm Convergence

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Main Authors: Di Cerbo, Luca F., Stern, Mark
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author Di Cerbo, Luca F.
Stern, Mark
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Stern, Mark
contents We study Betti numbers of sequences of Riemannian manifolds which Benjamini-Schramm converge to their universal covers. Using the Price inequalities we developed elsewhere, we derive two distinct convergence results. First, under a negative Ricci curvature assumption and no assumption on sign of the sectional curvature, we have a convergence result for weakly uniform discrete sequences of closed Riemannian manifolds. In the negative sectional curvature case, we are able to remove the weakly uniform discreteness assumption. This is achieved by combining a refined Thick-Thin decomposition together with a Moser iteration argument for harmonic forms on manifolds with boundary.
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spellingShingle Harmonic Forms, Price Inequalities, and Benjamini-Schramm Convergence
Di Cerbo, Luca F.
Stern, Mark
Differential Geometry
Geometric Topology
We study Betti numbers of sequences of Riemannian manifolds which Benjamini-Schramm converge to their universal covers. Using the Price inequalities we developed elsewhere, we derive two distinct convergence results. First, under a negative Ricci curvature assumption and no assumption on sign of the sectional curvature, we have a convergence result for weakly uniform discrete sequences of closed Riemannian manifolds. In the negative sectional curvature case, we are able to remove the weakly uniform discreteness assumption. This is achieved by combining a refined Thick-Thin decomposition together with a Moser iteration argument for harmonic forms on manifolds with boundary.
title Harmonic Forms, Price Inequalities, and Benjamini-Schramm Convergence
topic Differential Geometry
Geometric Topology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05634