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Main Author: Götzfried, Linus
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17340
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author Götzfried, Linus
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contents We prove the following monotonicity result for the holonomy group: Given a sequence of metric connections converging in $C^0$ such that all its members have holonomy contained in a closed group $H$, also their limit connection needs to have holonomy contained in $H$. As a corollary, for a sequence of Riemannian metrics converging in $C^1$ and having special restricted holonomy, their limit metric must also have special restricted holonomy. In particular, this implies that the map assigning to Riemannian metrics on a manifold the conjugacy classes of their restricted holonomy groups is lower semicontinuous with respect to the order relation given by inclusion of representatives.
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spellingShingle Monotonicity of holonomy groups
Götzfried, Linus
Differential Geometry
53C29 (Primary), 53C05 (Secondary)
We prove the following monotonicity result for the holonomy group: Given a sequence of metric connections converging in $C^0$ such that all its members have holonomy contained in a closed group $H$, also their limit connection needs to have holonomy contained in $H$. As a corollary, for a sequence of Riemannian metrics converging in $C^1$ and having special restricted holonomy, their limit metric must also have special restricted holonomy. In particular, this implies that the map assigning to Riemannian metrics on a manifold the conjugacy classes of their restricted holonomy groups is lower semicontinuous with respect to the order relation given by inclusion of representatives.
title Monotonicity of holonomy groups
topic Differential Geometry
53C29 (Primary), 53C05 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17340