Fibrations and stability for compact group actions on manifolds with local bounded Ricci covering geometry

Abstract

In the study of the collapsed manifolds with bounded sectional curvature, the following two results provide basic tools: a (singular) fibration theorem by K. Fukaya [J. Differential Geom., 1987, 25(1): 139–156] and J. Cheeger, K. Fukaya, and M. Gromov [J. Amer. Math. Soc., 1992, 5(2): 327–372], and the stability for isometric compact Lie group actions on manifolds by R. S. Palais [Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 1961, 67(4): 362–364] and K. Grove and H. Karcher [Math. Z., 1973, 132: 11–20]. The main results in this paper (partially) generalize the two results to manifolds with local bounded Ricci covering geometry.

Keywords

Fibrations / stability for group actions / nilpotent structures / Ricci curvature / bounded Ricci covering geometry

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