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We study rigidity problems for Riemannian and semi-Riemannian manifolds with metrics of low regularity. Specifically, we prove a version of the Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem \cite{CheegerGromoll72splitting} for Riemannian metrics and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Michael Kunzinger , Argam Ohanyan , Alessio Vardabasso

For compact submanifolds in Euclidean and Spherical space forms with Ricci curvature bounded below by a function $\alpha(n,k,H,c)$ of mean curvature, we prove that the submanifold is either isometric to the Einstein Clifford torus, or a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Jianquan Ge , Ya Tao , Yi Zhou

In this paper we prove weak L^{1,p} (and thus C^{\alpha}) compactness for the class of uniformly mean-convex Riemannian n-manifolds with boundary satisfying bounds on curvature quantities, diameter, and (n-1)-volume of the boundary. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Kenneth S. Knox

We consider closed immersed surfaces in R^3 evolving by the geometric triharmonic heat flow. Using local energy estimates, we prove interior estimates and a positive absolute lower bound on the lifespan of solutions depending solely on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-02 James McCoy , Scott Parkins , Glen Wheeler

We first prove stochastic representation formulae for space-time harmonic mappings defined on manifolds with evolving Riemannian metric. We then apply these formulae to derive Liouville type theorems under appropriate curvature conditions.…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Hongxin Guo , Robert Philipowski , Anton Thalmaier

In the context of cell motility modelling and more particularly related to the Filament Based Lamelipodium Model [Manhart et al 2015 & 2017], this work deals with a rigorous mathematical proof of convergence between solutions of two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Vuk Milisic

Recently, in [49], a new definition for lower Ricci curvature bounds on Alexandrov spaces was introduced by the authors. In this article, we extend our research to summarize the geometric and analytic results under this Ricci condition. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-13 Hui-Chun Zhang , Xi-Ping Zhu

We prove that if the initial hypersurface of the mean curvature flow in spheres satisfies a sharp pinching condition, then the solution of the flow converges to a round point or a totally geodesic sphere. Our result improves the famous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Li Lei , Hongwei Xu

In this paper, we observe a set of functionals of metrics which are all decrease under the Calabi flow and have uniform lower bound along the flow, which give rise to a set of integral estimates on the curvature flow. Using these estimates,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiuxiong Chen

We prove the local Lipschitz continuity of sub-elliptic harmonic maps between certain singular spaces, more specifically from the $n$-dimensional Heisenberg group into $CAT(0)$ spaces. Our main theorem establishes that these maps have the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Renan Assimos , Yaoting Gui , Jürgen Jost

We give a sufficient criterion, which we call stability, for a coarse Lipschitz map $f$ from a complete manifold $X$ with Ricci curvature bounded below to a proper Hadamard space $Y$ to be within bounded distance of a harmonic map. We prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-24 J. Maxwell Riestenberg , Peter Smillie

Let f be a smooth map between unit spheres of possibly different dimensions. We prove the global existence and convergence of the mean curvature flow of the graph of f under various conditions. A corollary is that any area-decreasing map…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-19 Mao-Pei Tsui , Mu-Tao Wang

The present paper is devoted to the study a global aspect of the geometry of harmonic mappings and, in particular, infinitesimal harmonic transformations, and represents the application of our results to the theory of Ricci solutions and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Sergey Stepanov , Irina Aleksandrova , Irina Tsyganok

In this paper, we study geometric rigidity of Riemannian manifolds admitting stable solutions of certain elliptic problems (stability in a variational sense), that is, under suitable hypotheses, we are able to characterize the Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Marcio Batista , Jose I. Santos

The paper establishes a series of gradient estimates for positive solutions to the heat equation on a manifold $M$ evolving under the Ricci flow, coupled with the harmonic map flow between $M$ and a second manifold $N$. We prove Li-Yau type…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-10 Mihai Băileşteanu

We prove that every continuous mapping from a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space $X$ into $\mathbb{R}^{m}$ can be uniformly approximated by $C^\infty$ smooth mappings {\em with no critical points}. This kind of result can be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Azagra , Manuel Cepedello Boiso

We propose a notion of scalar curvature lower bounds in a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold endowed with a $C^0$ metric based on the monotonicity of the Hawking mass along the inverse mean curvature flow. We present a stability theorem…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Mattia Fogagnolo , Giorgio Gatti , Alessandra Pluda

We investigate the rigidity problem for the sharp spectral gap on Finsler manifolds of weighted Ricci curvature bound $\text{Ric}_{\infty} \geq K > 0$. Our main results show that if the equality holds, the manifold necessarily admits a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Cong Hung Mai

Curvature is a fundamental geometric characteristic of smooth spaces. In recent years different notions of curvature have been developed for combinatorial discrete objects such as graphs. However, the connections between such discrete…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Pim van der Hoorn , Gabor Lippner , Carlo Trugenberger , Dmitri Krioukov