Cohomogeneity one Alexandrov spaces in low dimensions

Alexandrov spaces are complete length spaces with a lower curvature bound in the triangle comparison sense. When they are equipped with an effective isometric action of a compact Lie group with one-dimensional orbit space, they are said to be of cohomogeneity one. Well-known examples include cohomogeneity-one Riemannian manifolds with a uniform lower sectional curvature bound; such spaces are of interest in the context of non-negative and positive sectional curvature. In the present article we classify closed, simply connected cohomogeneity-one Alexandrov spaces in dimensions 5, 6 and 7. This yields, in combination with previous results for manifolds and Alexandrov spaces, a complete classification of closed, simply connected cohomogeneity-one Alexandrov spaces in dimensions at most 7.

Self-Contracted Curves in Spaces With Weak Lower Curvature Bound

We show that bounded self-contracted curves are rectifiable in metric spaces with weak lower curvature bound in a sense we introduce in this article. This class of spaces is wide and includes, for example, finite-dimensional Alexandrov spaces of curvature bounded below and Berwald spaces of nonnegative flag curvature. (To be more precise, our condition is regarded as a strengthened doubling condition and holds also for a certain class of metric spaces with upper curvature bound.) We also provide the non-embeddability of large snowflakes into (balls in) metric spaces in the same class. We follow the strategy of the last author’s previous paper based on the small rough angle condition, where spaces with upper curvature bound are considered. Here we apply this strategy to spaces with lower curvature bound.

A quantitative obstruction to collapsing surfaces

We provide a quantitative obstruction to collapsing surfaces of genus at least 2 under a lower curvature bound and an upper diameter bound.

A rigidity theorem for discrete groups

This work considers the discrete subgroups of group of isometries of an Alexandrov space with a lower curvature bound. By developing the notion of Hausdorff distance in these groups, a rigidity theorem for the close discrete groups was proved.