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In this paper, we prove the local gradient estimate for harmonic functions on complete, noncompact Finsler measure spaces under the condition that the weighted Ricci curvature has a lower bound. As applications, we obtain Liouville type…

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We prove a splitting theorem for complete gradient Ricci soliton with nonnegative curvature and establish a rigidity theorem for codimension one complete shrinking gradient Ricci soliton in $\mathbb R^{n+1}$ with nonnegative Ricci…

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We give a definition of convergence of differential of Lipschitz functions with respect to measured Gromov-Hausdorff topology. As their applications, we give a characterization of harmonic functions with polynomial growth on asymptotic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-05-07 Shouhei Honda

We provide some Liouville theorems for ancient nonnegative solutions of the heat equation on a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature bounded from below. We determine growth conditions ensuring triviality of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Sunra Mosconi

In this note we consider versions of both Ricci and sectional curvature pinching for Riemannian manifold with density. In the Ricci curvature case the main result implies a diameter estimate that is new even for compact shrinking Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-27 William Wylie

Haslhofer and M\"uller proved a compactness Theorem for four-dimensional shrinking gradient Ricci solitons, with the only assumption being that the entropy is uniformly bounded from below. However, the limit in their result could possibly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Yongjia Zhang

We prove that there is no nontrivial $L^2$-integrable harmonic 1-form on noncompact complete gradient steady Ricci solitons or noncompact complete gradient shrinking K\"{a}hler-Ricci solitons. As an application, it can be used to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Chenghong He , Di Wu , Xi Zhang

This work deals with the Entire solutions of a nonlinear equation. The first part of this paper is devoted to investigation of the Liouville property on compact manifolds, which extends a result by Castorina-Mantegazza [4] for positive f.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Huan-Jie Chen , Shi-Zhong Du , Yue-Xiao Ma

We prove several Liouville-type non-existence theorems for higher order Codazzi tensors and classical Codazzi tensors on complete and compact Riemannian manifolds, in particular. These results will be obtained by using theorems of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-17 I. G. Shandra , S. E. Stepanov

The classical Liouville theorem states that a bounded harmonic function on all of $\RR^n$ must be constant. In the early 1970s, S.T. Yau vastly generalized this, showing that it holds for manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

This is a survey paper focusing on the interplay between the curvature and topology of a Riemannian manifold. The first part of the paper provides a background discussion, aimed at non-experts, of Hopf's pinching problem and the Sphere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-01 S. Brendle , R. M. Schoen

On Kahler manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below, we establish some theorems which are counterparts of some classical theorems in Riemannian geometry, for example, Bishop-Gromov's relative volume comparison, Bonnet-Meyers…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-23 Gang Liu

We study certain typical semilinear elliptic equations in Euclidean space $\bR^{n}$ or on a closed manifold $M$ with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Our proof is based on a crucial integral identity constructed by the invariant tensor method.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Chen Guo , Zhengce Zhang

We prove a linear trace Li-Yau-Hamilton inequality for the Kaehler-Ricci flow. We then use this sharp differential inequality to study the Liouville properties of the plurisubharmonic functions on complete Kaehler manifolds with nonnegative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lei Ni , Luen-Fai Tam

In this paper, we prove the compactness theorem for gradient Ricci solitons. Let $(M_{\alpha}, g_{\alpha})$ be a sequence of compact gradient Ricci solitons of dimension $n\geq 4$, whose curvatures have uniformly bounded $L^{\frac{n}{2}}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Xi Zhang

In this paper we study the gradient Ricci shrinking soliton equation on rotationally symmetric manifolds of dimension three and higher and prove that the only complete examples of such metrics on $S^n$, $\R{n}$ and $\R{}\times S^{n-1}$ are,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brett Kotschwar

We first give a logarithmic gradient estimate for positive solutions of Allen-Cahn equation on Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below. As its natural corallary, Harnack inequality and a Liouville theorem for classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Zhihao Lu

When the domain is a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Bakry--Emery Ricci curvature and the target is a complete Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature bounded above by a positive constant, by carrying out…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Qun Chen , Hongbing Qiu

For $n\geq2,$ we obtain Liouville type theorems for minimal surface equations in half space $\mathbf R^n_+$ with affine Dirichlet boundary value or constant Neumann boundary value.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Guosheng Jiang , Zhehui Wang , Jintian Zhu

We introduce a proximal subdifferential and develop a calculus for nonsmooth functions defined on any Riemannian manifold $M$. We give several applications of this theory, concerning: 1) differentiability and geometrical properties of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Azagra , Juan Ferrera