Cohomogeneity one RCD-spaces

Abstract

We study $\mathsf{RCD}$-spaces $(X,d,\mathfrak{m})$ with group actions by isometries preserving the reference measure $\mathfrak{m}$ and whose orbit space has dimension one, i.e. cohomogeneity one actions. To this end we prove a Slice Theorem asserting that when $X$ is non-collapsed the slices are homeomorphic to metric cones over homogeneous spaces with $\mathrm{Ric}\ge 0$. As a consequence we obtain complete topological structural results (also in the collapsed case) and a regular orbit representation theorem. Conversely, we show how to construct new $\mathsf{RCD}$-spaces from a cohomogeneity one group diagram, giving a complete description of $\mathsf{RCD}$-spaces of cohomogeneity one. As an application of these results we obtain the classification of cohomogeneity one, non-collapsed $\mathsf{RCD}$-spaces of essential dimension at most $4$.

64 pages, changes to sections 3, 4 and 5