The Gluing Conjecture for multiple Alexandrov spaces

Let XAlex⨿n(κ)X\in\operatorname{Alex}_{\amalg}^n(\kappa) satisfy the paper's condition, let YY be a connected length metric space, and let f ⁣:XYf\colon X\to Y be a 1-Lipschitz onto map. Gluing Conjecture. The space YY belongs to Alexn(κ)\operatorname{Alex}^n(\kappa) if and only if the gluing induced by ff is by path isometry along the boundary and, for every yYy\in Y and every limit gluing map ff_\infty, the tangent cone Tf1(y)(X)T_{f^{-1}(y)}(X) glues to an Alexandrov space. This gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a finite gluing of Alexandrov spaces to remain Alexandrov; the abstract formulation describes the same proposed criterion in terms of path-isometric boundary gluings and glued tangent cones.

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Jian Ge and Nan Li, “Gluing of multiple Alexandrov spaces”, arXiv:2003.09919 (2020).

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