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Gradient Schr\"odinger Operators, Manifolds with Density and applications

Differential Geometry 2015-03-26 v7

Abstract

The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, the study of gradient Schr\"{o}dinger operators on manifolds with density ϕ\phi. We classify the space of solutions when the underlying manifold is ϕ\phi-parabolic. As an application, we extend the Naber-Yau Liouville Theorem, and we will prove that a complete manifold with density is ϕ\phi -parabolic if, and only if, it has finite ϕ\phi-capacity. Moreover, we show that the linear space given by the kernel of a nonnegative gradient Schr\"{o}dinger operators is one dimensional provided there exists a bounded function on it and the underlying manifold is ϕ\phi -parabolic. On the other hand, the topological and geometric classification of complete weighted HϕH_\phi -stable hypersurfaces immersed in a manifold with density (\amb,g,ϕ)(\amb , g, \phi) satisfying a lower bound on its Bakry-\'{E}mery-Ricci tensor. Also, we classify weighted stable surfaces in a three-manifold with density whose Perelman scalar curvature, in short, P-scalar curvature, satisfies \scad+\absϕ240\scad + \frac{\abs{\nabla \phi}^2 }{4} \geq 0. Here, the P-scalar curvature is defined as \scad=R2Δgϕ\absgϕ2\scad = R - 2 \Delta _g \phi - \abs{\nabla _g \phi }^2, being RR the scalar curvature of (\amb,g)(\amb ,g). Finally, we discuss the relationship of manifolds with density, Mean Curvature Flow (MCF), Ricci Flow and Optimal Transportation Theory. In particular, we obtain classification results for stable self-similiar solutions to the MCF, and also for stable translating solitons to the MCF, as far as we know, this is the first classification result on stable translating solitons.

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@article{arxiv.1209.6162,
  title  = {Gradient Schr\"odinger Operators, Manifolds with Density and applications},
  author = {Jose M. Espinar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.6162},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Major changes with respect to previous version "Manifolds with Density, applications and Gradient Schr\"{o}dinger Operators". We have improve the presentation and some of the results of the previous version. Any comment is welcome!

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