Volume and macroscopic scalar curvature

We prove the macroscopic cousins of three conjectures: (1) a conjectural bound of the simplicial volume of a Riemannian manifold in the presence of a lower scalar curvature bound, (2) the conjecture that rationally essential manifolds do not admit metrics of positive scalar curvature, (3) a conjectural bound of $$\ell ^2$$ ℓ 2 -Betti numbers of aspherical Riemannian manifolds in the presence of a lower scalar curvature bound. The macroscopic cousin is the statement one obtains by replacing a lower scalar curvature bound by an upper bound on the volumes of 1-balls in the universal cover.

The fundamental group of quotients of products of some topological spaces by a finite group - A generalization of a Theorem of Bauer-Catanese-Grunewald-Pignatelli: Le groupe fondamental de quotients de produits de certains espaces topologiques par ungroupe fini — Généralisation d’un théorème de Bauer–Catanese–Grunewald–Pignatelli

We provide a description of the fundamental group of the quotient of a product of topological spaces X i, each admitting a universal cover, by a finite group G, provided that there is only a finite number of path-connected components in X g i for every g ∈ G. This generalizes previous work of Bauer-Catanese-Grunewald-Pignatelli and Dedieu-Perroni. Nous fournissons une description du groupe fondamental du quotient d’un produitd’espaces topologiques Xi , chacun admettant un revêtement universel, par un groupe fini G,pourvu qu’il n’existe qu’un nombre ni de composantes connexes par arcs dans Xgi pour chaque g ∈ G. Cela généralise des résultats antérieurs de Bauer–Catanese–Grunewald–Pignatelli et deDedieu–Perroni.

Counting closed geodesics in a compact rank-one locally CAT(0) space

Let X be a compact, geodesically complete, locally CAT(0) space such that the universal cover admits a rank-one axis. Assume X is not homothetic to a metric graph with integer edge lengths. Let $P_t$ be the number of parallel classes of oriented closed geodesics of length at most t; then $\lim \nolimits _{t \to \infty } P_t / ({e^{ht}}/{ht}) = 1$ , where h is the entropy of the geodesic flow on the space $GX$ of parametrized unit-speed geodesics in X.

Central limit theorem of Brownian motions in pinched negative curvature

We prove the central limit theorem of random variables induced by distances to Brownian paths and Green functions on the universal cover of Riemannian manifolds of finite volume with pinched negative curvature. We further provide some ergodic properties of Brownian motions and an application of the central limit theorem to the dynamics of geodesic flows in pinched negative curvature.

A note on Lang's conjecture for quotients of bounded domains

It was conjectured by Lang that a complex projective manifold is Kobayashi hyperbolic if and only if it is of general type together with all of its subvarieties. We verify this conjecture for projective manifolds whose universal cover carries a bounded, strictly plurisubharmonic function. This includes in particular compact free quotients of bounded domains. Comment: 10 pages, no figures, comments are welcome. v3: following suggestions made by the referee, the exposition has been improved all along the paper, we added a variant of Theorem A which includes manifolds whose universal cover admits a bounded psh function which is strictly psh just at one point, and we added a section of examples. Final version, to appear on \'Epijournal G\'eom. Alg\'ebrique

Automorphisms of Contact Graphs of CAT(0) Cube Complexes

We show that, under weak assumptions, the automorphism group of a $\textrm{CAT(0)}$ cube complex $X$ coincides with the automorphism group of Hagen’s contact graph $\mathcal{C}(X)$. The result holds, in particular, for universal covers of Salvetti complexes, where it provides an analogue of Ivanov’s theorem on curve graphs of non-sporadic surfaces. This highlights a contrast between contact graphs and Kim–Koberda extension graphs, which have much larger automorphism group. We also study contact graphs associated with Davis complexes of right-angled Coxeter groups. We show that these contact graphs are less well behaved and describe exactly when they have more automorphisms than the universal cover of the Davis complex.

Dynamical incoherence for a large class of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms

We show that if a partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism of a Seifert manifold induces a map in the base which has a pseudo-Anosov component then it cannot be dynamically coherent. This extends [C. Bonatti, A. Gogolev, A. Hammerlindl and R. Potrie. Anomalous partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms III: Abundance and incoherence. Geom. Topol., to appear] to the whole isotopy class. We relate the techniques to the study of certain partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms in hyperbolic 3-manifolds performed in [T. Barthelmé, S. Fenley, S. Frankel and R. Potrie. Partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms homotopic to the identity in dimension 3, part I: The dynamically coherent case. Preprint, 2019, arXiv:1908.06227; Partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms homotopic to the identity in dimension 3, part II: Branching foliations. Preprint, 2020, arXiv: 2008.04871]. The appendix reviews some consequences of the Nielsen–Thurston classification of surface homeomorphisms for the dynamics of lifts of such maps to the universal cover.

Finite Characterization of the Coarsest Balanced Coloring of a Network

Balanced colorings of networks correspond to flow-invariant synchrony spaces. It is known that the coarsest balanced coloring is equivalent to nodes having isomorphic infinite input trees, but this condition is not algorithmic. We provide an algorithmic characterization: two nodes have the same color for the coarsest balanced coloring if and only if their [Formula: see text]th input trees are isomorphic, where [Formula: see text] is the number of nodes. Here [Formula: see text] is the best possible. The proof is analogous to that of Leighton’s theorem in graph theory, using the universal cover of the network and the notion of a symbolic adjacency matrix to set up a partition refinement algorithm whose output is the coarsest balanced coloring. The running time of the algorithm is cubic in [Formula: see text].

Topology of tropical moduli of weighted stable curves

The moduli space Δg,w of tropical w-weighted stable curves of volume 1 is naturally identified with the dual complex of the divisor of singular curves in Hassett’s spaces of w-weighted stable curves. If at least two of the weights are 1, we prove that Δ0, w is homotopic to a wedge sum of spheres, possibly of varying dimensions. Under additional natural hypotheses on the weight vector, we establish explicit formulas for the Betti numbers of the spaces. We exhibit infinite families of weights for which the space Δ0,w is disconnected and for which the fundamental group of Δ0,w has torsion. In the latter case, the universal cover is shown to have a natural modular interpretation. This places the weighted variant of the space in stark contrast to the heavy/light cases studied previously by Vogtmann and Cavalieri–Hampe–Markwig–Ranganathan. Finally, we prove a structural result relating the spaces of weighted stable curves in genus 0 and 1, and leverage this to extend several of our genus 0 results to the spaces Δ1,w.

Characterisation of polyhedral products with finite generalised Postnikov decomposition

A generalised Postnikov tower for a space X is a tower of principal fibrations with fibres generalised Eilenberg–MacLane spaces, whose inverse limit is weakly homotopy equivalent to X. In this paper we give a characterisation of a polyhedral product {Z_{K}(X,A)} whose universal cover either admits a generalised Postnikov tower of finite length, or is a homotopy retract of a space admitting such a tower. We also include p-local and rational versions of the theorem. We end with a group theoretic application.