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Rigidity ppt
1. On the rigidity of geometric structures
and its connections to algebra and
topology.
T.Venkatesh
School of Mathematics and computing Science
R.C.U, Belagavi
J.V.Ramana Raju
School of Graduate Studies
Jain University Bangalore
2. SLIDE-2
About a decade ago the second author
happened to listen to a talk on “Geometric
Rigidity” delivered by an algebraist… and
the results seemed to be couched in the
language of algebra and representation
theory. The effort here is to understand
rigidity results from a geometric viewpoint.
3. SLIDE-3
• “Rigidity” is not defined precisely and so it
covers various situations where a weaker
condition on a topological space forces a stronger
condition to hold.
•Colloquially the term Rigid refers to “ being
stubborn when subjected to change”
•We shall see situations where such a property
holds, and situations where there is a lack of such
rigidity. All manifolds considered here are
compact without boundary.
4. SLIDE-4
Suppose X1 , X2 are two closed genus ‘g’
surfaces, then we know that X1~X2, where
the equivalence is a homeomorphism and
also a diffeomorphism.
We refer to this property as topological
rigidity. Now one can ask the question as to
how many non-isometric classes of such 2-
manifolds exist?. In other words how big is
the deformation space ?
5. SLIDE-5
The answer to this question is understood
via Teichmuller theory, that for a genus g
surface (g≥2) one can continuously deform
the space to obtain parameter space of
dimension 6g-6.
We refer to this situation as the lack of
geometric rigidity.
6. SLIDE-6
Whenever X1 , X2 are two manifolds of the
same homotopy type, if they are necessarily
isometric, then we say that X1 is
geometrically rigid
Remark: For genus 2 surfaces one can
explicitly show the construction of non-
isometric classes.
7. SLIDE-7
However in dimension 3 and above, in case
of hyperbolic manifolds one cannot deform
in the way we did in the surfaces case.
Theorem(Mostow,Prasad) Suppose M,N are
two hyperbolic manifolds of finite volume.
If M and N have isomorphic fundamental
groups, then M and N are necessarily
isometric.
8. SLIDE-8
•In other words geometric invariants like
hyperbolic length , volume etc are all
topological invariants.
•Thus we can say that the geometric
structure of a hyperbolic 3-manifold is
extremely rigid
•Remark: In the case of flat Riemannian
manifolds, Bieberbach theorem is a result
9. SLIDE-9
MORE HISTORY
It was M.Berger who gave the first Rigidity
result from a differential geometric
viewpoint. These results fit into what may
be called as “curvature rigidity”
Theorem: If M is a manifold such that all its
sectional curvatures lie between 1 and 4 or
between -4 and -1, then M is either a sphere
or is isometric to a rank-1 symmetric space
10. SLIDE-10
MORE HISTORY….
There is an extensive body of work by
Farrell and Jones for the case of non-
positively curved manifolds of dimension
atleast 5.
Richard Schoen etal have charecterised
spherical spaceforms
11. SLIDE-11
Theorem (Schoen): Suppose M is a compact
2-manifold with scalar curvature positive
everywhere. Then M is either S2
or RP2
e
Similar result holds for all even dimensional
compact manifolds.
A result of Gromov and Lawson says that
the torus is rigid in the following sense:
12. SLIDE-12
Theorem (Gromov, Lawson): Let g be a
Riemannian metric of non-negative scalar
curvature on the torus Tn
Then g must be
necessarily flat.
Applying this to the two torus we can say
that the 2-torus exhibits curvature rigidity.
13. SLIDE-13
Algebraic versions:
The Rigidity phenomena in the sense of
Mostow has several algebraic versions.
The lack of rigidity in the case of surfaces
can be attributed to the presence of families
of non-conjugate lattices in SL2(R) [by the
theory of uniformization]