CLOSED THREE-DIMENSIONAL ALEXANDROV SPACES WITH ISOMETRIC CIRCLE ACTIONS

Abstract

We obtain a topological and weakly equivariant classification of closed three-dimensional Alexandrov spaces with an effective, isometric circle action. This generalizes the topological and equivariant classifications of Raymond [26] and Orlik and Raymond [23] of closed three-dimensional manifolds admitting an effective circle action. As an application, we prove a version of the Borel conjecture for closed three-dimensional Alexandrov spaces with circle symmetry.