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We study the behaviour of eigenvalues, below the bottom of the essential spectrum, of the Laplacian under finite Riemannian coverings of complete and connected Riemannian manifolds. We define spectral stability and instability of such…

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We obtain upper estimates for the bottom (that is, greatest lower bound) of the essential spectrum of weighted Laplacian operator of a weighted manifold under assumptions of the volume growth of their geodesic balls and spheres.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-05 Adina Rocha

We study Riemannian manifolds with boundary under a lower Bakry-E'mery Ricci curvature bound. In our weighted setting, we prove several rigidity theorems for such manifolds with boundary. We conclude a rigidity theorem for the inscribed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-22 Yohei Sakurai

We prove a generalization of Gromov's conjecture on scalar curvature rigidity of convex polytopes to arbitrary convex Riemannian polytope type domains via harmonic spinors on convex domians with boundary condition constructed by Brendle. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Xuan Yao

In this paper we introduce a notion of scattering theory for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on non-compact, connected and complete Riemannian manifolds. A principal condition is given by a certain positive lower bound of the second…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 K. Ito , E. Skibsted

We study various covering spectra for complete noncompact length spaces with universal covers (including Riemannian manifolds and the pointed Gromov Hausdorff limits of Riemannian manifolds with lower bounds on their Ricci curvature). We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Christina Sormani , Guofang Wei

In this paper, we prove an upper bound on the $\widehat{A}$ genus of a smooth, closed, spin Riemannian manifold using its scalar curvature lower bound, Neumann isoperimetric constant, and volume. The proof of this result relies on spectral…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Qiaochu Ma , Jinmin Wang , Guoliang Yu , Bo Zhu

I prove that the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator with the Neumann boundary condition on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary admits a fast approximation by the spectra of suitable graph Laplacians on proximity graphs on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Jinpeng Lu

In this paper, we establish a sharp lower bound for the spectrum of the Hodge Laplacian on K\"ahler hyperbolic manifolds. This bound is expressed explicitly in terms of the supremum norm of the 1-form associated with the K\"ahler hyperbolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Ye-Won Luke Cho , Young-Jun Choi , Kang-Hyurk Lee

We consider modified scalar curvature functions for Riemannian manifolds equipped with smooth measures. Given a Riemannian submersion whose fiber transport is measure-preserving up to constants, we show that the modified scalar curvature of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Lott

We establish a relationship between a certain notion of covering complexity of a Riemannian spin manifold and positive lower bounds on its scalar curvature. This makes use of a pairing between quantitative operator $K$-theory and Lipschitz…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Hao Guo , Guoliang Yu

We prove some boundary rigidity results for the hemisphere under a lower bound for Ricci curvature. The main result can be viewed as the Ricci version of a conjecture of Min-Oo.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-03 Fengbo Hang , Xiaodong Wang

This paper discusses the question whether the discrete spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator is infinite or finite. The borderline-behavior of the curvatures for this problem will be completely determined.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-24 Hironori Kumura

In this paper we obtain lower bound estimates of the spectrum of Laplace-Beltrami operator on complete submanifolds with bounded mean curvature, whose ambient space admits a Riemannian submersion over a Riemannian manifold with negative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Marcos Petrúcio Cavalcante , Fernando Manfio

We develop minimal slicing via capillary hypersurfaces to understand positive scalar curvature metric on manifolds with boundary. The method provides rigidity statements once the regularity of minimizers of capillary area functional holds.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Dongyeong Ko , Xuan Yao

We first show that a Laplace isospectral family of Riemannian orbifolds, satisfying a lower Ricci curvature bound, contains orbifolds with points of only finitely many isotropy types. If we restrict our attention to orbifolds with only…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Elizabeth Stanhope

In this paper we prove the following. Let $\Sigma$ be an $n$--dimensional closed hyperbolic manifold and let $g$ be a Riemannian metric on $\Sigma \times \mathbb{S}^1$. Given an upper bound on the volumes of unit balls in the Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Hannah Alpert , Kei Funano

In this work, we prove a compactness theorem on the space of all Hamiltonian stationay Lagrangian submanifolds in a compact symplectic manifold with uniform bounds on area and total extrinsic curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Jingyi Chen , John Man Shun Ma

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

Gromov conjectured that the total mean curvature of the boundary of a compact Riemannian manifold can be estimated from above by a constant depending only on the boundary metric and on a lower bound for the scalar curvature of the fill-in.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Christian Baer