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We study a class of fourth order curvature flows on a compact Riemannian manifold, which includes the gradient flows of a number of quadratic geometric functionals, as for instance the L2 norm of the curvature. Such flows can develop a…

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We complete the picture of sharp eigenvalue estimates for the p-Laplacian on a compact manifold by providing sharp estimates on the first nonzero eigenvalue of the nonlinear operator $\Delta_p$ when the Ricci curvature is bounded from below…

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In this paper, by using monotonicity formulas for vector bundle-valued $p$-forms satisfying the conservation law, we first obtain general $L^2$ global rigidity theorems for locally conformally flat (LCF) manifolds with constant scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Yuxin Dong , Hezi Lin , Shihshu Walter Wei

It is proved that if an almost Hermitian manifold of dimension greater than 4 has vanishing (classical) Bochner curvature tensor and is not Kaehlerian at a point, then it is flat in a neighbourhood of this point.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-31 Ognian Kassabov

Following the approach of Bryant we study the intrinsic torsion of a SU(3)-manifold deriving a number of formulae for the Ricci and the scalar curvature in terms of torsion forms. As a consequence we prove that in some special cases the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-26 Lucio Bedulli , Luigi Vezzoni

We introduce the Characteristic Curvature as the curvature of the trajectories of the hamiltonian vector field with respect to the normal direction to the isoenergetic surfaces and by using the Second Fundamental Form we relate it to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-09 Vittorio Martino

We prove the existence of classical solutions to the Dirichlet problem for a class of fully nonlinear elliptic equations of curvature type on Riemannian manifolds. We also derive new second derivative boundary estimates which allows us to…

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In this paper we discuss and prove $\epsilon$-regularity theorems for Einstein manifolds $(M^n,g)$, and more generally manifolds with just bounded Ricci curvature, in the collapsed setting. A key tool in the regularity theory of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Aaron Naber , Ruobing Zhang

We analyze the vanishing and non-vanishing behavior of the graded Betti numbers for Segre embeddings of products of projective spaces. We give lower bounds for when each of the rows of the Betti table becomes non-zero, and prove that our…

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We prove a new rigidity result for metrics defined on closed smooth $ n $-manifolds that are critical for the quadratic functional $ \mathfrak{F}_{t} $, which depends on the Ricci curvature $ Ric $ and the scalar curvature $ R $, and that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Marco Bernardini

We study compact complex $3$-dimensional non-K\"ahler Bismut Ricci flat pluriclosed Hermitian manifolds (BHE) via their dimensional reduction to a special K\"ahler geometry in complex dimension $2$, recently obtained by Barbaro, Streets and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Vestislav Apostolov , Abdellah Lahdili , Kuan-Hui Lee

It is known that by dualizing the Bochner-Lichnerowicz-Weitzenb\"{o}ck formula, one obtains Poincar\'e-type inequalities on Riemannian manifolds equipped with a density, which satisfy the Bakry-\'Emery Curvature-Dimension condition…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Alexander V. Kolesnikov , Emanuel Milman

We obtain estimates of the multiplicative constants appearing in local convergence results of the Riemannian Gauss-Newton method for least squares problems on manifolds and relate them to the geometric condition number of [P. B\"urgisser…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Paul Breiding , Nick Vannieuwenhoven

Assuming a lower bound on the Ricci curvature of a complete Riemannian manifold, for $p< 1/2$ we show the existence of bounds on the local $L^p$ norm of the Ricci curvature that depend only on the dimension and which improve with volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-10 Michael Smith

In this note we extend a recent result of S. Brendle [3] to Riemannian manifolds with densities and nonnegative Bakry-\'Emery Ricci curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Florian Johne

We prove a laplacian comparison theorem in the barrier sense for the function distance to the boundary of Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature, area and mean curvature of the boundary bounded above. As an application we get…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-26 Raquel Perales

In recent work of Chan-Huang-Lee, it is shown that if a manifold enjoys uniform bounds on (a) the negative part of the scalar curvature, (b) the local entropy, and (c) volume ratios up to a fixed scale, then there exists a Ricci flow for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Adam Martens

We rigorously show that a large family of monotone quantities along the weak inverse mean curvature flow is the limit case of the corresponding ones along the level sets of $p$-capacitary potentials. Such monotone quantities include…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Luca Benatti , Alessandra Pluda , Marco Pozzetta

In this paper, we mainly investigate continuity, monotonicity and differentiability for the first eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplace operator along the Ricci flow on closed manifolds. We show that the first $p$-eigenvalue is strictly increasing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Jia-Yong Wu , Er-Min Wang , Yu Zheng

We study some preservation phenomena for lower bound of total scalar curvatures on a smooth manifold. In particular, we prove that the lower bound of the weighted total scalar curvature (which is known as Perelman's…

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