Submetries of manifolds
Submetries of manifolds
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Vitali Kapovtich, University of Toronto
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Submetries are generalizations of Riemannian submersions and quotients by proper isometric group actions.听They naturally arise in a number of areas such as collapsing with various curvature bounds, singular Riemannian foliations and various rigidity problems in geometry.
We study geometric and topological structure of submetries of manifolds.听I will also discuss possible applications to collapsing with lower curvature bounds.