Local Estimate on Convexity Radius and decay of injectivity radius in a Riemannian manifold


Abstract in English

In this paper we prove the following pointwise and curvature-free estimates on convexity radius, injectivity radius and local behavior of geodesics in a complete Riemannian manifold $M$: 1) the convexity radius of $p$, $operatorname{conv}(p)ge min{frac{1}{2}operatorname{inj}(p),operatorname{foc}(B_{operatorname{inj}(p)}(p))}$, where $operatorname{inj}(p)$ is the injectivity radius of $p$ and $operatorname{foc}(B_r(p))$ is the focal radius of open ball centered at $p$ with radius $r$; 2) for any two points $p,q$ in $M$, $operatorname{inj}(q)ge min{operatorname{inj}(p), operatorname{conj}(q)}-d(p,q),$ where $operatorname{conj}(q)$ is the conjugate radius of $q$; 3) for any $0<r<min{operatorname{inj}(p),frac{1}{2}operatorname{conj}(B_{operatorname{inj}(p)}(p))}$, any (not necessarily minimizing) geodesic in $B_r(p)$ has length $le 2r$. We also clarify two different concepts on convexity radius and give examples to illustrate that the one more frequently used in literature is not continuous.

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