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Sharp diameter estimates for compact manifold with boundary

Differential Geometry 2017-04-27 v1

Abstract

Let (N,g)(N,g) be an nn-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold with nonempty boundary \ptN\pt N. Assume that the Ricci curvature of NN has a negative lower bound Ric(n1)c2Ric\geq -(n-1)c^2 for some c>0c>0, and the mean curvature of the boundary \ptN\pt N satisfies H(n1)c0>(n1)cH\geq (n-1)c_0>(n-1)c for some c0>c>0c_0>c>0. Then a known result (see \cite{LN}) says that supxNd(x,\ptN)1ccoth1c0c\sup_{x\in N}d(x,\pt N)\leq \frac 1c\coth^{-1}\frac{c_0}c. In this paper, we prove that if the boundary \ptN\pt N is compact, then the equality holds if and only if NN is isometric to the geodesic ball of radius 1ccoth1c0c\frac 1c\coth^{-1}\frac{c_0}c in an nn-dimensional hyperbolic space Hn(c2)\mathbb{H}^n(-c^2) of constant sectional curvature c2-c^2. Moreover, we also prove an analogous result for manifold with nonempty boundary and with mm-Bakry-\'{E}mery Ricci curvature bounded below by a negative constant.

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@article{arxiv.1306.3715,
  title  = {Sharp diameter estimates for compact manifold with boundary},
  author = {Haizhong Li and Yong Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.3715},
  year   = {2017}
}

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