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 spaces as the counterpart of harmonic Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below. We prove that a compact RCD space is isometric to a smooth closed Riemannian manifold if it satisfies either of the following harmonicity conditions:(1) the heat kernel depends only on the variable and the distance between points and ; (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}
}