The escape estimate for normal neighbourhoods #
This module provides the escape estimate for normal neighbourhoods: a path that starts at the centre and leaves the exponential image of the domain has length at least the radius of a smaller tangent ball contained in that domain. It also provides a strict comparison with the radial segment to a point in the smaller ball when the path leaves the larger domain.
References #
- The Apache-2.0
frenzymath/Poincare-Conjectureformalization, revision24f32e4d600878bfaac6bc2f2f9324175571c321, especiallyDoCarmoLib/Riemannian/Exponential/NormalBallEDist.leanandDoCarmoLib/Riemannian/Exponential/MinimizingPathPiecewise.lean. - M. P. do Carmo, Riemannian Geometry, Birkhäuser, 1992, Ch. 3, §3, Proposition 3.6.
- J. M. Lee, Introduction to Riemannian Manifolds, Springer, 2018, Ch. 6, Prop. 6.11.
The escape estimate for a normal neighbourhood. If a C¹ path starts at the centre
p of a normal domain U and meets the complement of riemannianExp p '' U, then its length is
at least ENNReal.ofReal r whenever 0 < r and Metric.closedBall 0 r ⊆ U.
A C¹ competitor that starts at the centre and leaves the larger normal domain is strictly
longer than the radial segment to a point in a smaller normal ball.