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Let $\Sigma$ be a complete Riemannian manifold of nonnegative Ricci curvature. We prove a Liouville-type theorem: every smooth solution $u$ to minimal hypersurface equation on $\Sigma$ is a constant provided $u$ has sublinear growth for its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Qi Ding

In this paper, we give a new proof of the splitting theorem on manifolds with nonnegative spectral Ricci curvature proved in [APX24, CMMR24, HW26]. Furthermore, by constructing weighted minimizing geodesics at infinity, we show that minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Han Hong , Gaoming Wang

We investigate the compact submanifolds in Riemannian space forms of nonnegative sectional curvature that satisfy a lower bound on the Ricci curvature, that bound depending solely on the length of the mean curvature vector of the immersion.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Marcos Dajczer , Theodoros Vlachos

We study various transport-information inequalities under three different notions of Ricci curvature in the discrete setting: the curvature-dimension condition of Bakry and \'Emery, the exponential curvature-dimension condition of Bauer…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-25 Max Fathi , Yan Shu

We relate the (non)existence of lower scalar curvature bounds to the existence of certain distance-decreasing maps. We also give a sufficient condition for the existence of a limiting scalar curvature measure in the backward limit of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-02 John Lott

We establish a sharp edge-connectivity estimate for graphs with non-negative Bakry-\'Emery curvature. This leads to a geometric criterion for the existence of a perfect matching. Precisely, we show that any regular graph with non-negative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Kaizhe Chen , Jack H. Koolen , Shiping Liu

We study minimal graphs with linear growth on complete manifolds $M^m$ with $\mathrm{Ric} \ge 0$. Under the further assumption that the $(m-2)$-th Ricci curvature in radial direction is bounded below by $C r(x)^{-2}$, we prove that any such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Giulio Colombo , Eddygledson Souza Gama , Luciano Mari , Marco Rigoli

We study Bakry-\'Emery curvature-dimension inequalities for non-local operators on the one-dimensional lattice and prove that operators with finite second moment have finite dimension. Moreover, we show that a class of operators related to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Adrian Spener , Frederic Weber , Rico Zacher

We study minimal hypersurfaces in manifolds of non-negative Ricci curvature, Euclidean volume growth and quadratic curvature decay at infinity. By comparison with capped spherical cones, we identify a precise borderline for the Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Qi Ding , J. Jost , Y. L. Xin

We prove a Bakry-\'Emery generalization of a theorem of Petersen and Wilhelm, itself a generalization of a theorem of Frankel, that closed minimal hypersurfaces in a complete manifold with a suitable curvature bound must intersect. We then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Kenneth Moore , Eric Woolgar

In this paper, we investigate curvature pinching phenomena in complete non-compact asymptotically conical gradient expanding Ricci solitons and establish several Hamilton-Ivey type curvature pinching estimates. These results are parallel to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Huai-Dong Cao , Junming Xie

We prove that, on any sub-Riemannian manifold endowed with a positive smooth measure, the Bakry-\'Emery inequality for the corresponding sub-Laplacian implies the existence of enough Killing vector fields on the tangent cone to force the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Luca Rizzi , Giorgio Stefani

We prove that not every metric space embeds coarsely into an Alexandrov space of nonpositive curvature. This answers a question of Gromov (1993) and is in contrast to the fact that any metric space embeds coarsely into an Alexandrov space…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Alexandros Eskenazis , Manor Mendel , Assaf Naor

In 2014, Gromov vaguely conjectured that a sequence of manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature should have a subsequence which converges in some weak sense to a limit space with some generalized notion of nonnegative scalar curvature.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Christina Sormani , Wenchuan Tian , Changliang Wang

We establish curvature obstruction theorems for manifolds with boundary. Our main theorems show that, for dimensions up to 7, a topologically nontrivial compact manifold with boundary cannot have a metric of positive $m$-intermediate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Jingche Chen , Han Hong

In this paper, we establish Betti number estimates for graphs with non-negative Ollivier curvature, and for graphs with non-negative Bakry-\'Emery curvature, providing a discrete analogue of a classical result by Bochner for manifolds.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Moritz Hehl , Florentin Münch

In this note, we review some recent developments related to metric aspects of scalar curvature from the point of view of index theory for Dirac operators. In particular, we revisit index-theoretic approaches to a conjecture of Gromov on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Rudolf Zeidler

The notions of bounded expansion and nowhere denseness have been applied very successfully in algorithmic graph theory. We study the corresponding notions of directed bounded expansion and nowhere crownfulness on directed graphs. We show…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Stephan Kreutzer , Patrice Ossona de Mendez , Roman Rabinovich , Sebastian Siebertz

This thesis is an exposition of Ollivier-Ricci Curvature of metric spaces as introduced by Yann Ollivier, which is based upon the 1-Wasserstein Distance and optimal transport theory. We present some of the major results and proofs that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Eleanor Wiesler

In this short note we prove Lieb--Thirring inequalities on manifolds with negative constant curvature. The discrete spectrum appears below the continuous spectrum $(d-1)^2/4, \infty)$, where $d$ is the dimension of the hyperbolic space. As…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Alexei Ilyin , Ari Laptev , Timon Weinmann