Conjecture on singular spherical and hyperbolic orbifold limits of Einstein manifolds

Let (Mo,go)(M_o,g_o) be a singular spherical or hyperbolic orbifold, and let (Mi,gi)(M_i,g_i) be smooth Einstein manifolds. Spherical and hyperbolic orbifold limit conjecture. Singular spherical and hyperbolic orbifolds cannot be Gromov–Hausdorff limits of smooth Einstein manifolds; equivalently, there is no sequence such that

(Mi,gi)GH(Mo,go).(M_i,g_i)\xrightarrow{GH}(M_o,g_o).

The conjecture would remove the technical integrability assumption from the paper's obstruction theorem, which rules out desingularization by smooth integrable Ricci-flat ALE models. The source does not state a resolution.

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Tristan Ozuch, “Noncollapsed degeneration of Einstein 4-manifolds II”, arXiv:1909.12960 (2021).

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