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Let $(M,g)$ be a noncompact complete Bach-flat manifold with positive Yamabe constant. We prove that $(M,g)$ is flat if $(M, g)$ has zero scalar curvature and sufficiently small $L_{2}$ bound of curvature tensor. When $(M, g)$ has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-19 Seongtag Kim

We prove that closed manifolds admitting a generic metric whose sectional curvature is locally quasi-constant are graphs of space forms. In the more general setting of QC spaces where sets of isotropic points are arbitrary, under suitable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-08 Louis Funar

Hamilton's pinching conjecture, that three-dimensional complete non-compact manifolds with pinched Ricci curvature are flat, has recently been resolved using Ricci flow. In this paper we prove a direct analogue of that result in all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Alix Deruelle , Man-Chun Lee , Felix Schulze , Miles Simon , Peter M. Topping

In this paper, by combining techniques from Ricci flow and algebraic geometry, we prove the following generalization of the classical uniformization theorem of Riemann surfaces. Given a complete noncompact complex two dimensional K\"ahler…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bing-Long Chen , Siu-Hung Tang , Xi-Ping Zhu

A submanifold $M^m$ of a Euclidean space $R^{m+p}$ is said to have harmonic mean curvature vector field if $\Delta \vec{H}=0$, where $\vec{H}$ is the mean curvature vector field of $M\hookrightarrow R^{m+p}$ and $\Delta$ is the rough…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-20 Yong Luo

We study the spectrum of complete noncompact manifolds with bounded curvature and positive injectivity radius. We give general conditions which imply that their essential spectrum has an arbitrarily large finite number of gaps. In…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Richard Schoen , Hung Tran

Let the warped product $M^n=L^m\times_\varphi F^{n-m}$, $n\geq m+3\geq 8$, of Riemannian manifolds be an Einstein manifold with Ricci curvature $\rho$ that admits an isometric immersion into Euclidean space with codimension two. Under the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-19 M. Dajczer , C. -R. Onti , Th. Vlachos

For three dimensional complete, non-compact Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature and uniformly positive scalar curvature, we obtain the sharp linear volume growth ratio and the corresponding rigidity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Guodong Wei , Guoyi Xu , Shuai Zhang

Let $(M, g)$ be a complete, connected, non-compact Riemannian $3$-manifold. Suppose that $(M,g)$ satisfies the Ricci--pinching condition $\mathrm{Ric}\geq\varepsilon\mathrm{R} g$ for some $\varepsilon>0$, where $\mathrm{Ric}$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Luca Benatti , Carlo Mantegazza , Francesca Oronzio , Alessandra Pluda

Cartan-Hadamard manifold is a simply connected Riemannian manifold with non-positive sectional curvature. In this article, we have proved that a Cartan-Hadamard manifold satisfying steady gradient Ricci soliton with the integral condition…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Absos Ali Shaikh , Prosenjit Mandal , Chandan Kumar Mondal , Pinaki Ranjan Ghosh

We confirm a conjecture of Hamilton: On compact manifolds the normalized Ricci flow evolves metrics with positive curvature operators to limit metrics with constant curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christoph Boehm , Burkhard Wilking

We give a new proof of a theorem of Kleiner-Leeb: that any quasi-isometrically embedded Euclidean space in a product of symmetric spaces and Euclidean buildings is contained in a metric neighborhood of finitely many flats, as long as the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-02-26 Kevin Wortman

We prove a splitting theorem for a smooth noncompact manifold with (possibly noncompact) boundary. We show that if a noncompact manifold of dimension $n\geq 2$ has $\lambda_1(-\alpha\Delta+\operatorname{Ric})\geq 0$ for some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Han Hong , Gaoming Wang

We study rigidity on certain K\"ahler manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Among others things, we show that a complete noncompact K\"ahler surface with nonnegative Ricci curvature, Euclidean volume growth and quadratic curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Gang Liu

In this work, using the method by He, we prove a short time existence for Ricci flow on a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold with the following properties: (i) there is $r_0>0$ such that the volume of any geodesic balls of radius $r\le…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Man-Chun Lee , Luen-Fai Tam

We show that any compact half-conformally flat manifold of negative type, with bounded $L^2$ energy, sufficiently small scalar curvature, and a non-collapsing assumption, has all betti numbers bounded. We show that this result is optimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Brian Weber , Martin Citoler-Saumell

In this paper, we generalize topological results known for noncompact manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature to spaces with nonnegative $N$-Bakry \'Emery Ricci curvature. We study the Splitting Theorem and a property called the geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Alice Lim

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 ,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Baptiste Devyver , Emmanuel Russ

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. This paper is concerned with the set of scalar-flat metrics which are in the conformal class of g and have the boundary as a constant mean curvature hypersurface. We prove that this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Sergio Almaraz

In this article we extend several foundational results of the theory of complete minimal surfaces of finite index in the Euclidean space to minimal surfaces in asymptotically flat manifolds and, more generally, to marginally outer-trapped…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Alessandro Carlotto