Diameters of 3-Sphere Quotients

dc.creatorDunbar, W.
dc.creatorGreenwald, S.
dc.creatorMcGowan, J.
dc.creatorSearle, C.
dc.date2007-02-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:48:29Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:48:29Z
dc.descriptionLet G, a subset of O(4), act isometrically on the 3-sphere. In this article we calculate a lower bound for the diameter of the quotient spaces $S^3/G$. We find it to be ${1/2}\arccos(\frac{\tan(\frac{3 π}{10})}{\sqrt3})$, which is exactly the value of the lower bound for diameters of the spherical space forms. In the process, we are also able to find a lower bound for diameters for the spherical Aleksandrov spaces, $S^n/G$, of cohomogeneities 1 and 2, as well as for cohomogeneity 3 (with some restrictions on the group type). This leads us to conjecture that the diameter of $S^n/G$ is increasing as the cohomogeneity of the group $G$ increases.
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dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702680
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702680
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/124515
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.subject53C20
dc.titleDiameters of 3-Sphere Quotients
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