Rigidity of area non-increasing maps

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Main Authors: Lee, Man-Chun, Tam, Luen-Fai, Wan, Jingbo
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author Lee, Man-Chun
Tam, Luen-Fai
Wan, Jingbo
author_facet Lee, Man-Chun
Tam, Luen-Fai
Wan, Jingbo
contents In this work, we consider the area non-increasing map between manifolds with positive curvature. By exploring the strong maximum principle along the graphical mean curvature flow, we show that an area non-increasing map between certain positively curved manifolds is either homotopy trivial, Riemannian submersion, local isometry or isometric immersion. This implies that an area non-increasing self map of $\mathbb{CP}^n$, $n\ge 2$ is either homotopically trivial or is an isometry. This confirms a speculation of Tsai-Tsui-Wang. We also use Brendle's sphere Theorem and mean curvature flow coupled with Ricci flow to establish related results on manifolds with positive $1$-isotropic curvature.
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spellingShingle Rigidity of area non-increasing maps
Lee, Man-Chun
Tam, Luen-Fai
Wan, Jingbo
Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
Geometric Topology
In this work, we consider the area non-increasing map between manifolds with positive curvature. By exploring the strong maximum principle along the graphical mean curvature flow, we show that an area non-increasing map between certain positively curved manifolds is either homotopy trivial, Riemannian submersion, local isometry or isometric immersion. This implies that an area non-increasing self map of $\mathbb{CP}^n$, $n\ge 2$ is either homotopically trivial or is an isometry. This confirms a speculation of Tsai-Tsui-Wang. We also use Brendle's sphere Theorem and mean curvature flow coupled with Ricci flow to establish related results on manifolds with positive $1$-isotropic curvature.
title Rigidity of area non-increasing maps
topic Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
Geometric Topology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10940