Width Stability of Rotationally Symmetric Metrics
In 2018, Marques and Neves proposed a volume preserving intrinsic flat stability conjecture concerning their width rigidity theorem for the unit round 3-sphere. In this work, we establish the validity of this conjecture under the additional assumption of rotational symmetry. Furthermore, we obtain a rigidity theorem in dimensions at least three for rotationally symmetric manifolds, which is analogous to the width rigidity theorem of Marques and Neves. We also prove a volume preserving intrinsic flat stability result for this rigidity theorem. Lastly, we study variants of Marques and Neves' stability conjecture. In the first, we show Gromov-Hausdorff convergence outside of certain "bad" sets. In the second, we assume non-negative Ricci curvature and show Gromov-Hausdorff stability.
Authors
- Hunter Stufflebeam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8502-5172)
- Paul Sweeney
Institutions
- University of Trento (IT)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Philadelphia University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Geometric Analysis
- Published
- 2025-06-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-025-02020-5
- Primary Topic
- Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Simons Foundation
- European Commission
- Università degli Studi di Trento
- Division of Mathematical Sciences
- HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council