English

Rigidity for critical points in the Levy-Gromov inequality

Differential Geometry 2020-04-22 v1 Optimization and Control

Abstract

The Levy-Gromov inequality states that round spheres have the least isoperimetric profile (normalized by total volume) among Riemannian manifolds with a fixed positive lower bound on the Ricci tensor. In this note we study critical metrics corresponding to the Levy-Gromov inequality and prove that, in two-dimensions, this criticality condition is quite rigid, as it characterizes round spheres and projective planes.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1612.04119,
  title  = {Rigidity for critical points in the Levy-Gromov inequality},
  author = {Fabio Cavalletti and Francesco Maggi and Andrea Mondino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.04119},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

5 pages