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We show that one-dimensional circle is the only case for closed smooth metric measure spaces with nonnegative Bakry-\'{E}mery Ricci curvature whose spectrum of the weighted Laplacian has an optimal positive upper bound. This result extends…

We prove that if $(X,\mathsf{d},\mathfrak{m})$ is a metric measure space with $\mathfrak{m}(X)=1$ having (in a synthetic sense) Ricci curvature bounded from below by $K>0$ and dimension bounded above by $N\in [1,\infty)$, then the classic…

The Bakry-Emery generalized Ricci tensor arises in scalar-tensor gravitation theories in the conformal gauge known as the Jordan frame. Recent results from the mathematics literature show that standard singularity and splitting theorems…

In this survey, we study three different notions of curvature that are defined on graphs, namely, combinatorial curvature, Bakry-\'Emery curvature, and Ollivier's Ricci curvature. For each curvature notion, the definition and its motivation…

Under the assumption of the uniform local Sobolev inequality, it is proved that Riemannian metrics with an absolute Ricci curvature bound and a small Riemannian curvature integral bound can be smoothed to having a sectional curvature bound.…

In a $(1+n)$-dimensional Lorentz--Finsler manifold with $N$-Bakry--\'Emery Ricci curvature bounded below for $N\in(n,\infty]$, using the Riccati equation techniques, we established the Bishop--Gromov volume comparison for the so-called…

In this paper, we establish a new volume comparison theorem for a complete manifold with a function $\rho(x)$ as the lower bound of the Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature. As applications, we obtain a new volume rigidity result of the gradient…

This work proves certain general orbifold compactness results for spaces of Riemannian metrics, generalizing earlier results along these lines for Einstein metrics or metrics with bounded Ricci curvature. This is then applied to prove such…

Recent advances in the theory of metric measures spaces on the one hand, and of sub-Riemannian ones on the other hand, suggest the possibility of a "great unification" of Riemannian and sub-Riemannian geometries in a comprehensive framework…

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain with convex boundary in a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold with Bakry-\'Emery Ricci curvature bounded below by a positive constant. We prove a lower bound of the first eigenvalue of the weighted…

A coupling method and an analytic one allow us to prove new lower bounds for the spectral gap of reversible diffusions on compact manifolds. Those bounds are based on the a notion of curvature of the diffusion, like the coarse Ricci…

In this article, we investigate the geometry of critical metrics of the volume functional on an $n$-dimensional compact manifold with (possibly disconnected) boundary. We establish sharp estimates to the mean curvature and area of the…

We study a Riemannian manifold equipped with a density which satisfies the Bakry--\'Emery Curvature-Dimension condition (combining a lower bound on its generalized Ricci curvature and an upper bound on its generalized dimension). We first…

We introduce a new geometric approach to a manifold equipped with a smooth density function that takes a torsion-free affine connection, as opposed to a weighted measure or Laplacian, as the fundamental object of study. The connection…

In this short note, we give a sufficient condition for almost smooth compact metric measure spaces to satisfy the Bakry-\'Emery condition $BE (K, N)$. The sufficient condition is satisfied for the glued space of any two (not necessary same…

In this article, we investigate the geometry of critical metrics of the volume functional on compact manifolds with boundary. We use the generalized Reilly's formula to derive new sharp integral estimates for critical metrics of the volume…

The almost splitting theorem of Cheeger-Colding is established in the setting of almost nonnegative generalized $m$-Bakry-\'{E}mery Ricci curvature, in which $m$ is positive and the associated vector field is not necessarily required to be…

In this paper, we prove the extensions of Bonnet--Myers' type theorems obtained by Calabi and Cheeger--Gromov--Taylor via Bakry--Emery Ricci curvature, which generalize the results of \cite{FG, Lim1, Wan, Wang, WW, Wu}.

Given a smooth compact manifold with boundary, we study variational properties of the volume functional and of the area functional of the boundary, restricted to the space of the Riemannian metrics with prescribed curvature. We obtain a…

We prove that Riemannian metrics with an absolute Ricci curvature bound and a conjugate radius bound can be smoothed to having a sectional curvature bound. Using this we derive a number of results about structures of manifolds with Ricci…