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This short note provides a survey on rigidity and almost rigidity results of Green functions in a non-smooth setting. We also make some observation on the Cheeger-Yau inequality on RCD spaces of non-negative Ricci curvature with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Shouhei Honda

We derive a positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat manifolds with boundary whose mean curvature satisfies a sharp estimate involving the conformal Green's function. The theorem also holds if the conformal Green's function is replaced…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Sven Hirsch , Pengzi Miao

We study complete non-compact manifolds of positive scalar curvature, with a focus on how curvature decay is constrained by topology at infinity. Our first main result shows that topological linking at infinity forces polynomial decay of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Shunichiro Orikasa

Let $(\M^n, g)$ be a $n$ dimensional, complete ( compact or noncompact) Riemannian manifold whose Ricci curvature is bounded from below by a constant $-K \le 0$. Let $u$ be a positive solution of the heat equation on $\M^n \times (0,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Qi S. Zhang

For Riemannian manifolds with a measure $(M,g, e^{-f} dvol_g)$ we prove mean curvature and volume comparison results when the $\infty$-Bakry-Emery Ricci tensor is bounded from below and $f$ is bounded or $\partial_r f$ is bounded from…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Guofang Wei , Will Wylie

In this work, we show that complete non-compact manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature, Euclidean volume growth and sufficiently small curvature concentration are necessarily flat Euclidean space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Pak-Yeung Chan , Man-Chun Lee

For a compact Riemannian $3$-manifold $(M^{3}, g)$ with mean convex boundary which is diffeomorphic to a weakly convex compact domain in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$, we prove that if scalar curvature is nonnegative and the scaled mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Dongyeong Ko , Xuan Yao

On Kahler manifolds with Ricci curvature lower bound, assuming the real analyticity of the metric, we establish a sharp relative volume comparison theorem for small balls. The model spaces being compared to are complex space forms, i.e,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-23 Gang Liu

We establish several inequalities for manifolds with positive scalar curvature and, more generally, for the scalar curvature bounded from below, in the spirit of the classical bound on the distances between conjugates points in surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Misha Gromov

On a complete $p$-nonparabolic $3$-dimensional manifold with non-negative scalar curvature and vanishing second homology, we establish a sharp monotonicity formula for the proper $p$-Green function along its level sets for $1<p<3$. This can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Pak-Yeung Chan , Jianchun Chu , Man-Chun Lee , Tin-Yau Tsang

In this note, we obtain a sharp volume estimate for complete gradient Ricci solitons with scalar curvature bounded below by a positive constant. Using Chen-Yokota's argument we obtain a local lower bound estimate of the scalar curvature for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-02 Shijin Zhang

Let M be a complete non-compact connected Riemannian n-dimensional manifold. We first prove that, for any fixed point p in M, the radial Ricci curvature of M at p is bounded from below by the radial curvature function of some non-compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-09 Kei Kondo , Minoru Tanaka

We investigate the influence of uniformly positive scalar curvature on the size of a non-collapsed Ricci limit space coming from a sequence of $n$-manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature and uniformly positive scalar curvature. We prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Jinmin Wang , Zhizhang Xie , Bo Zhu , Xingyu Zhu

In this paper, we establish some comparison theorems for the total quotient curvature. Specifically, we examine the behavior of the functional with respect to the total quotient curvature and prove that the background Einstein metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Jiaqi Chen , Yi Fang , Jingyang Zhong

We study Riemannian manifolds with boundary under a lower weighted Ricci curvature bound. We consider a curvature condition in which the weighted Ricci curvature is bounded from below by the density function. Under the curvature condition,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Yohei Sakurai

In this paper, we study the boundary behaviors of compact manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and with nonempty boundary. Using a general version of Positive Mass Theorem of Schoen-Yau and Witten, we prove the following theorem: For…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuguang Shi , Luen-fai Tam

Let $M^n(n\geq3)$ be an $n$-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold with harmonic curvature and positive scalar curvature. Assume that $M^n$ satisfies some integral pinching conditions. We give some rigidity theorems on compact manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Hai-Ping Fu

The energy of any $C^1$ representative of a homotopy class of maps from a compact and connected Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature into a complete Riemannian manifold with no conjugate points is bounded below by a constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-24 James Dibble

We show that scalar curvature lower bounds are preserved under certain weak convergence of smooth three manifolds to a smooth limit. More precisely, suppose that $M_k$ and $M$ are smooth, closed, Riemannian three manifolds. Assume that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Liam Mazurowski , Xuan Yao

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