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Let $M$ be a complex $n$-dimensional projective manifold in $\mathbb{P}^{n+r}$ endowed with the Fubini-Study metric of constant holomorphic sectional curvature $1$, $\sigma$ its second fundamental form, and $\underline{|\sigma|}^2$ the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Ping Li

We study the rigidity problems for open (complete and noncompact) $n$-manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. We prove that if an asymptotic cone of $M$ properly contains a Euclidean $\mathbb{R}^{k-1}$, then the first Betti number of…

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We study Riemannian manifolds with boundary under a lower Ricci curvature bound, and a lower mean curvature bound for the boundary. We prove a volume comparison theorem of Bishop-Gromov type concerning the volumes of the metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-25 Yohei Sakurai

For any complete and noncompact manifold $M$ with $\mathrm{Ric}\ge 0$, we define a function $\mathrm{RV}(s)$ that describes the growth of relative volume asymptotically $$\mathrm{RV}(s)=\limsup_{r\to\infty} \dfrac{\mathrm{vol}…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Dimitri Navarro , Jiayin Pan , Xingyu Zhu

A new differentiable sphere theorem is obtained from the view of submanifold geometry. An important scalar is defined by the scalar curvature and the mean curvature of an oriented complete submanifold $M^n$ in a space form $F^{n+p}(c)$ with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Hong-Wei Xu , Juan-Ru Gu

Let $\{g(t)\}_{t\in [0,T)}$ be the solution of the Ricci flow on a closed Riemannian manifold $M^n$ with $n\geq 3$. Without any assumption, we derive lower volume bounds of the form ${\rm Vol}_{g(t)}\geq C (T-t)^{\frac{n}{2}}$, where $C$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Chih-Wei Chen , Zhenlei Zhang

We prove that the combination of strict positivity of $k$-tri-Ricci curvature with non-negative $3$-intermediate Ricci curvature forces rigidity of two-sided stable free boundary minimal hypersurface in a 5-manifold with bounded geometry…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Jia Li

We show that complete conformally flat manifolds of dimension n>2 with nonnegative Ricci curvature enjoy nice rigidity properties: they are either flat, or locally isometric to a product of a sphere and a line, or are globally conformally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gilles Carron , Marc Herzlich

In this note we characterize compact hypersurfaces of dimension $n\geq 2$ with constant mean curvature $H$ immersed in space forms of constant curvature and satisfying an optimal integral pinching condition: they are either totally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Giovanni Catino

We prove a quantitative rigidity result for almost constant mean curvature spheres in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Under a sub--two--sphere Willmore bound and a small $L^2$--CMC defect, we show that an almost--CMC surface is close to the round sphere,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Yuchen Bi , Jie Zhou

Let $M^n$ be a compact K\"ahler manifold with bisectional curvature bounded from below by $1$. If $diam(M) = \pi / \sqrt{2}$ and $vol(M)> vol(\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^n)/ 2^n$, we prove that $M$ is biholomorphically isometric to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Gang Liu , Yuan Yuan

In this paper, we consider the eigenvalue problem for Hodge-Laplacian on a Riemannian manifold $M$ isometrically immersed into another Riemannian manifold $\bar M$ for arbitrary codimension. We first assume the pull back Weitzenb\"{o}ck…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Qing Cui , Linlin Sun

Let $G\curvearrowright M$ be an isometric action of a Lie Group on a complete orientable Riemannian manifold. We disintegrate absolutely continuous measures with respect to the volume measure of $M$ along the principal orbits of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-25 André Magalhães de Sá Gomes , Christian S. Rodrigues

Let (M, g) be a complete Riemannian manifold. Assume that the Ricci curvature of M has quadratic decay and that the volume growth is strictly faster than quadratic. We establish that the Hardy spaces of exact 1-differential forms on M ,…

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We show that the space of min-max minimal hypersurfaces is non-compact when the manifold has an analytic metric of positive Ricci curvature and dimension $3\leq n+1\leq 7$. Furthermore, we show that bumpy metrics with positive Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-17 Nicolau Sarquis Aiex

In this paper, we prove fibration theorems for manifolds with almost nonnegative Ricci curvature and certain extra regularity assumptions. We show that a closed $n$-manifold $M$ satisfying $\mathrm{diam}(M)^2\mathrm{sec}_M \geq -\kappa$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Hongzhi Huang , Xian-Tao Huang , Jikang Wang , Xingyu Zhu

The aim of this paper is to prove two results concerning the rigidity of complete, immersed, orientable, stable minimal hypersurfaces: we show that they are hyperplane in $\mathbb{R}^4$, while they do not exist in positively curved closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Giovanni Catino , Paolo Mastrolia , Alberto Roncoroni

Suppose M_t is a smooth family of compact connected two dimensional submanifolds of Euclidean space E^3 without boundary varying isometrically in their induced Riemannian metrics. Then we show that the mean curvature integrals over M_t are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Frederic J. Almgren , Igor Rivin

In this paper, we study $n$-dimensional hypersurfaces with constant $m^{\text{th}}$ mean curvature in a unit sphere $S^{n+1}(1)$ and construct many compact nontrivial embedded hypersurfaces with constant $m^{\text{th}}$ mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-03 Qing-Ming Cheng , Haizhong Li , Guoxin Wei

Let $(M,g)$ be a closed connected oriented (possibly non-spin) smooth four-dimensional manifold with scalar curvature bounded below by $n(n-1)$. In this paper, we prove that if $f$ is a smooth map of non-zero degree from $(M, g)$ to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Simone Cecchini , Jinmin Wang , Zhizhang Xie , Bo Zhu