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Main Author: Gwozdz, Maja
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04569
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contents We prove that a complete Riemannian manifold with a positive uniform lower bound on injectivity radius and a positive uniform lower bound on Ricci curvature admits an $L^\infty$-close (bi-Lipschitz) smooth metric with two-sided Ricci curvature bounds and a uniform positive lower bound on injectivity radius. This answers Question 2 in the Morgan--Pansu list of open problems from the conference Modern Trends in Differential Geometry (São Paulo, 2018), proposed by L. Bandara. In the proof, we rely on controlled smoothing with Croke's universal local volume lower bound and the Cheeger--Gromov--Taylor injectivity radius estimate.
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spellingShingle Bi-Lipschitz Smoothing under Ricci and Injectivity Bounds
Gwozdz, Maja
Differential Geometry
We prove that a complete Riemannian manifold with a positive uniform lower bound on injectivity radius and a positive uniform lower bound on Ricci curvature admits an $L^\infty$-close (bi-Lipschitz) smooth metric with two-sided Ricci curvature bounds and a uniform positive lower bound on injectivity radius. This answers Question 2 in the Morgan--Pansu list of open problems from the conference Modern Trends in Differential Geometry (São Paulo, 2018), proposed by L. Bandara. In the proof, we rely on controlled smoothing with Croke's universal local volume lower bound and the Cheeger--Gromov--Taylor injectivity radius estimate.
title Bi-Lipschitz Smoothing under Ricci and Injectivity Bounds
topic Differential Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04569