Soul bundle conjecture for topologically nice Alexandrov spaces

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Let XX be a complete open Alexandrov space with nonnegative curvature, and suppose that XX is topologically nice. Let SS be a soul of XX, and let B(S,ϵ)B(S,\epsilon) denote its closed ϵ\epsilon-neighborhood.

Soul bundle conjecture. There exists a positive number ϵ\epsilon such that

X≅int⁡B(S,ϵ),X\cong \operatorname{int} B(S,\epsilon),

and B(S,ϵ)B(S,\epsilon) is homeomorphic to a disk bundle over SS, called the normal bundle of SS.

The conjecture is stated as known in dimension three and is asserted by the source to be proved in dimension four. The supplied candidate does not include the definition of “topologically nice,” so that hypothesis should be checked against the paper.

References

Primary source

Takao Yamaguchi, “Collapsing 4-manifolds under a lower curvature bound”, arXiv:1205.0323 (2024).

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