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Half Space Property in RCD(K,N) spaces

Differential Geometry 2025-09-24 v3 Analysis of PDEs Metric Geometry

Abstract

The goal of this note is to prove the Half Space Property for RCD(0,N) spaces, namely that if (X,d,m) is a parabolic RCD(0,N) space and CX×R C \subset X \times \mathbb{R} is locally the boundary of a perimeter minimizing set and it is contained in a half space, then CC is a locally finite union of horizontal slices. The same result is proved for RCD(K,N) spaces, for any KRK\in \mathbb{R} and N(1,)N\in (1,\infty), under the stronger assumption that CC is the boundary of a \emph{globally} perimeter minimizing set. As a consequence, we obtain oscillation estimates and a Half Space Theorem for minimal hypersurfaces in products M×RM \times \mathbb{R}, where MM is a parabolic smooth manifold (possibly weighted and with boundary), satisfying a Ricci curvature lower bound. On the way of proving the Half Space Property, we also extend to the RCD setting some classical results on Green's functions and parabolic manifolds.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2402.12230,
  title  = {Half Space Property in RCD(K,N) spaces},
  author = {Alessandro Cucinotta and Andrea Mondino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.12230},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

44 pages. Added Theorem 1.2, treating the case $K<0$

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