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Compact harmonic RCD$(K, N)$ spaces are harmonic manifolds

Differential Geometry 2025-10-14 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we study harmonic RCD(K,N)(K,N) spaces as the counterpart of harmonic Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below. We prove that a compact RCD(K,N)(K,N) space is isometric to a smooth closed Riemannian manifold if it satisfies either of the following harmonicity conditions:(1) the heat kernel ρ(x,y,t)\rho(x,y,t) depends only on the variable tt and the distance between points xx and yy; (2) the volume of the intersection of two geodesic balls depends only on their radii and the distance between their centers.

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@article{arxiv.2412.20841,
  title  = {Compact harmonic RCD$(K, N)$ spaces are harmonic manifolds},
  author = {Zhangkai Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.20841},
  year   = {2025}
}
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