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By using Minkowski addition of convex functions, we prove convexity and rearrangement properties of solutions to some Hessian equations in $\R^3$ and Brunn-Minkowski and isoperimetric inequalities for related functionals.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-04 Paolo Salani

We would like to study new Ricci flow invariant curvature conditions. Specifically, we provide quantitative evidence for an unpublished conjecture of B\"ohm and Wilking. As an application, we study the topology of manifolds with pinched…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Yiyan Xu

We prove a Brunn-Minkowski type inequality for the first (nontrivial) Dirichlet eigenvalue of the weighted $p$-operator \[ -\Delta_{p,\gamma}u=-\text{div}(|\nabla u|^{p-2} \nabla u)+(x,\nabla u)|\nabla u|^{p-2}, \] where $p>1$, in the class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Andrea Colesanti , Lei Qin , Paolo Salani

We prove two uniqueness theorems for solutions of linear and nonlinear wave equations; the first theorem is in the Minkowski space while the second is in the domain of outer communication of a Kerr black hole. Both theorems concern ill…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-19 Alexandru D. Ionescu , Sergiu Klainerman

In this essay, we discuss the notion of optimal transport on geodesic measure spaces and the associated (2-)Wasserstein distance. We then examine displacement convexity of the entropy functional on the space of probability measures. In…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-17 Otis Chodosh

We review part of the classical theory of curves and surfaces in $3$-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space. We focus in spacelike surfaces with constant mean curvature pointing the differences and similarities with the Euclidean space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Rafael López

In this paper, an Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality is established for closed $2$-convex spacelike hypersurface in de Sitter space by investigating the behavior of the locally constrained inverse curvature flow \begin{align} \frac{\partial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Kuicheng Ma

We find a new sharp trace Gagliardo-Nirenberg-Sobolev inequality on convex cones, aswell as a weighted sharp trace Sobolev inequality on epigraphs of convex functions. This is done by using a generalized Borell-Brascamp-Lieb inequality,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Simon Zugmeyer

We prove Michael-Simon type Sobolev inequalities for $n$-dimensional submanifolds in $(n+m)$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative $k$-th intermediate Ricci curvature by using the Alexandrov-Bakelman-Pucci method. Here…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Hui Ma , Jing Wu

We review recent results regarding the problem of the stability of Sobolev inequalities on Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature lower bounds. We shall describe techniques and methods from smooth and non-smooth geometry, the fruitful…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Francesco Nobili

We present two geometric applications of heat flow methods on the discrete hypercube $\{-1,1\}^n$. First, we prove that if $X$ is a finite-dimensional normed space, then the bi-Lipschitz distortion required to embed $\{-1,1\}^n$ equipped…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Alexandros Eskenazis

Lott-Sturm-Villani theory of curvature on geodesic spaces has been extended to discrete graph spaces by C. L{\'e}onard by replacing W2-Wasserstein geodesics by Schr{\"o}odinger bridges in the definition of entropic curvature [23, 25, 24].…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Paul-Marie Samson

We prove existence of multiple radial solutions to the Dirichlet problem for nonlinear equations involving the mean curvature operator in Lorentz-Minkowski space and a nonlinear term of concave-convex type. Solutions are found using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Vittorio Coti Zelati , Xu Dong , Yuanhong Wei

In [16], we established Trudinger-Moser inequalities for complete noncompact Riemannian manifold on which the Ricci curvature has lower bound and the injectivity radius is strictly positive. In this note, we improve those inequalties when…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-05 Yunyan Yang , Xiaobao Zhu

In this paper, we first investigate several rigidity problems for hypersurfaces in the warped product manifolds with constant linear combinations of higher order mean curvatures as well as "weighted'' mean curvatures, which extend the work…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-19 Jie Wu , Chao Xia

In this paper, we introduce a new combinatorial curvature on triangulated surfaces with inversive distance circle packing metrics. Then we prove that this combinatorial curvature has global rigidity. To study the Yamabe problem of the new…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Huabin Ge , Xu Xu

In this paper, we give some new characterizations of umbilic hypersurfaces in general warped product manifolds, which can be viewed as generalizations of the work in \cite{KLP18} and \cite{WX14}. Firstly, we prove the rigidity for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Weimin Sheng , Yinhang Wang , Jie Wu

In this paper we study the curvature flow of a curve in a plane endowed with a minkowskian norm whose unit ball is smooth. We show that many of the properties known in the euclidean case can be extended (with due adaptations) to this new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-15 Vitor Balestro , Marcos Craizer , Ralph C. Teixeira

This is the second paper of two in a series under the same title ([CRX]); both study the quantitative volume space form rigidity conjecture: a closed $n$-manifold of Ricci curvature at least $(n-1)H$, $H=\pm 1$ or $0$ is diffeomorphic to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Lina Chen , Xiaochun Rong , Shicheng Xu