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This manuscript investigates the curvature and topological properties of certain $\infty$-Einstein Finsler metrics on Finsler metric measure spaces. By imposing symmetry conditions, we construct a series of special metrics and analyze their…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Bin Shen

We prove some boundary rigidity results for the hemisphere under a lower bound for Ricci curvature. The main result can be viewed as the Ricci version of a conjecture of Min-Oo.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-03 Fengbo Hang , Xiaodong Wang

We prove existence and uniqueness of optimal maps on $RCD^*(K,N)$ spaces under the assumption that the starting measure is absolutely continuous. We also discuss how this result naturally leads to the notion of exponentiation.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-22 Nicola Gigli , Tapio Rajala , Karl-Theodor Sturm

All known examples of homogeneous Einstein metrics of negative Ricci curvature can be realized as left-invariant Riemannian metrics on solvable Lie groups. After defining a notion of maximal symmetry among left-invariant Riemannian metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Carolyn S. Gordon , Michael R. Jablonski

For a complete noncompact connected Riemannian manifold with bounded geometry $M^n$, we prove that the isoperimetric profile function $I_{M^n}$ is continuous. Here for bounded geometry we mean that $M$ have $Ricci$ curvature bounded below…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Abraham Muñoz Flores , Stefano Nardulli

We prove that the Ricci flow for complete metrics with bounded geometry depends continuously on initial conditions for finite time with no loss of regularity. This relies on our recent work where sectoriality for the generator of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Eric Bahuaud , Christine Guenther , James Isenberg , Rafe Mazzeo

In this paper we generalize the monotonicity formulas of [C] for manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Monotone quantities play a key role in analysis and geometry; see, e.g., [A], [CM1] and [GL] for applications of monotonicity to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-24 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

For a given finite subset $S$ of a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ whose Schouten curvature tensor belongs to a given cone, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence and uniqueness of a conformal metric on $M…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-22 YanYan Li , Luc Nguyen

We study rigidity results for the Einstein metrics as the critical points of a family of known quadratic curvature functionals involving the scalar curvature, the Ricci curvature and the Riemannian curvature tensor, characterized by some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Bingqing Ma , Guangyue Huang , Jie Yang

In this paper, we proved a compactness result about Riemannian manifolds with an arbitrary pointwisely pinched Ricci curvature tensor.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-03 Hui-Ling Gu

We show that any normal metric on a closed biquotient with finite fundamental group has positive Ricci curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lorenz J. Schwachhöfer

We show that sequences of compact gradient Ricci solitons converge to complete orbifold gradient solitons, assuming constraints on volume, the $L^{n/2}$-norm of curvature, and the auxiliary constant $C_1$. The strongest results are in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-09 Brian Weber

We establish the weak continuity of the Gauss-Coddazi-Ricci system for isometric embedding with respect to the uniform $L^p$-bounded solution sequence for $p>2$, which implies that the weak limit of the isometric embeddings of the manifold…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-04-24 Gui-Qiang Chen , Marshall Slemrod , Dehua Wang

Quasi-Einstein manifolds are well-studied generalizations of Einstein manifolds. This includes gradient Ricci solitons and has a natural correspondence with the warped product Einstein manifolds. A quasi-Einstein metric is said to be rigid…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Atreyee Bhattacharya , Sayoojya Prakash

Consider a compact Lie group $G$ and a closed Lie subgroup $H<G$. Let $\mathcal M$ be the set of $G$-invariant Riemannian metrics on the homogeneous space $M=G/H$. By studying variational properties of the scalar curvature functional on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Artem Pulemotov

A fundamental tool in the analysis of Ricci flow is a compactness result of Hamilton in the spirit of the work of Cheeger, Gromov and others. Roughly speaking it allows one to take a sequence of Ricci flows with uniformly bounded curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-18 Peter Topping

In this paper, we establish a compactness result for a class of conformally compact Einstein metrics defined on manifolds of dimension $d\ge 4$. As an application, we derive the global uniqueness of a class of conformally compact Einstein…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Sun-Yung A. Chang , Yuxin Ge , Xiaoshang Jin , Jie Qing

In this paper, we consider some rigidity results for the Einstein metrics as the critical points of some known quadratic curvature functionals on complete manifolds, characterized by some point-wise inequalities. Moreover, we also provide…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Guangyue Huang , Yu Chen , Xingxiao Li

We show that any closed biquotient with finite fundamental group admits metrics of positive Ricci curvature. Also, let M be a closed manifold on which a compact Lie group G acts with cohomogeneity one, and let L be a closed subgroup of G…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lorenz Schwachhoefer , Wilderich Tuschmann

For a complete Riemannian manifold $M$ with an (1,1)-elliptic Codazzi self-adjoint tensor field $A$ on it, we use the divergence type operator ${L_A}(u): = div(A\nabla u)$ and an extension of the Ricci tensor to extend some major comparison…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-13 S. H. Fatemi , S. Azami