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Bakry-\'Emery Ricci Curvature Bounds on Manifolds with Boundary

Differential Geometry 2021-10-26 v2

Abstract

We prove a Bakry-\'Emery generalization of a theorem of Petersen and Wilhelm, itself a generalization of a theorem of Frankel, that closed minimal hypersurfaces in a complete manifold with a suitable curvature bound must intersect. We then prove splitting theorems of Croke-Kleiner type for manifolds bounded by hypersurfaces obeying Bakry-\'Emery curvature bounds. Motivated in part by the near-horizon geometry programme of general relativity, we do not assume that the Bakry-\'Emery vector field is of gradient type.

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@article{arxiv.2110.06524,
  title  = {Bakry-\'Emery Ricci Curvature Bounds on Manifolds with Boundary},
  author = {Kenneth Moore and Eric Woolgar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.06524},
  year   = {2021}
}

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