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We study the fundamental group of an open $n$-manifold $M$ of nonnegative Ricci curvature. We show that if there is an integer $k$ such that any tangent cone at infinity of the Riemannian universal cover of $M$ is a metric cone, whose…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Jiayin Pan

We study the variation of a smooth volume form along extremals of a variational problem with nonholonomic constraints and an action-like Lagrangian. We introduce a new invariant describing the interaction of the volume with the dynamics and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-15 Andrei Agrachev , Davide Barilari , Elisa Paoli

We prove generalized lower Ricci bounds for Euclidean and spherical cones over complete Riemannian manifolds. These cones are regarded as complete metric measure spaces. In general, they will be neither manifolds nor Alexandrov spaces. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-02 Kathrin Bacher , Karl-Theodor Sturm

We study collapsed manifolds with Ricci bounded covering geometry i.e., Ricci curvature is bounded below and the Riemannian universal cover is non-collapsed or consists of uniform Reifenberg points. Via Ricci flows' techniques, we partially…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Hongzhi Huang , Lingling Kong , Xiaochun Rong , Shicheng Xu

We prove that if a closed unit volume Riemannian manifold, $(M^n, g)$, has Ricci curvature bounded from below by r>0 then the Yamabe constant of the conformal class of $g$ is at least $n.r$. This inequality has already been proved by S.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jimmy Petean

We present a new curvature condition which is preserved by the Ricci flow in higher dimensions. For initial metrics satisfying this condition, we establish a higher dimensional version of Hamilton's neck-like curvature pinching estimate.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-15 S. Brendle

In this paper we consider Riemannian manifolds of dimension at least $3$, with nonnegative Ricci curvature and Euclidean Volume Growth. For every open bounded subset with smooth boundary we establish the validity of an optimal Minkowski…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Luca Benatti , Mattia Fogagnolo , Lorenzo Mazzieri

In this paper, we study 3-dimensional complete non-compact Riemannian manifolds with asymptotically nonnegative Ricci curvature and a uniformly positive scalar curvature lower bound. Our main result is that, if this manifold has $k$ ends…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Xian-Tao Huang , Shuai Liu

Let $M$ be an open $n$-manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature. We prove that if its escape rate is not $1/2$ and its Riemannian universal cover is conic at infinity, that is, every asymptotic cone $(Y,y)$ of the universal cover is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Jiayin Pan

In this paper we prove weak L^{1,p} (and thus C^{\alpha}) compactness for the class of uniformly mean-convex Riemannian n-manifolds with boundary satisfying bounds on curvature quantities, diameter, and (n-1)-volume of the boundary. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Kenneth S. Knox

This is the lecture notes on the interplay between optimal transport and Riemannian geometry. On a Riemannian manifold, the convexity of entropy along optimal transport in the space of probability measures characterizes lower bounds of the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-09-20 Shin-Ichi Ohta

Motivated by Schoen's conjecture on the volume functional for closed hyperbolic manifolds, we generalize the volume comparison theorem of Hu, Ji, and Shi and establish a volume comparison theorem for rank 1 symmetric spaces of non-compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Jiaqi Chen , Yufei Shan , Yinghui Ye

We describe the local structure of Riemannian manifolds with harmonic curvature which admit a maximum number, in a well-defined sense, of local warped-product decompositions, and at the same time their Ricci tensor has, at some point, only…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Andrzej Derdzinski , Paolo Piccione

In this paper it is proven that the volume entropy of a riemannian metric evolving by the Ricci flow, if does not collapse, nondecreases. Therefore, it provides a sufficient condition for a solution to collapse. Then, for the limit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Catalin C. Vasii

In this paper we investigate Lott-Sturm-Villani's synthetic lower Ricci curvature bound on Riemannian manifolds with boundary. We prove several measure rigidity results for some important functional and geometric inequalities, which…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Bang-XIan Han

Let $M$ be an $n(\geq3)$-dimensional oriented compact submanifold with parallel mean curvature in the simply connected space form $F^{n+p}(c)$ with $c+H^2>0$, where $H$ is the mean curvature of $M$. We prove that if the Ricci curvature of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-17 Hong-Wei Xu , Juan-Ru Gu

Let M be a complete n-dimensional Riemannian manifold, if the sobolev inqualities hold on M, then the geodesic ball has maximal volume growth; if the Ricci curvature of M is nonnegative, and one of the general Sobolev inequalities holds on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Qihua Ruan , Zhihua Chen

Using $\delta$-invariants and Newton--Okounkov bodies, we derive the optimal volume upper bound for K\"ahler manifolds with positive Ricci curvature, from which we get a new characterization of the complex projective space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Kewei Zhang

This paper studies the structure and stability of boundaries in noncollapsed $\text{RCD}(K,N)$ spaces, that is, metric-measure spaces $(X,\mathsf{d},\mathscr{H}^N)$ with lower Ricci curvature bounded below. Our main structural result is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Elia Bruè , Aaron Naber , Daniele Semola

In this article, we investigate the volume comparison with respect to scalar curvature. In particular, we show volume comparison holds for small geodesic balls of metrics near a V-static metric. For closed manifold, we prove the volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-22 Wei Yuan