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We prove that every entire solution of the minimal graph equation that is bounded from below and has at most linear growth must be constant on a complete Riemannian manifold $M$ with only one end if $M$ has asymptotically non-negative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-03 Jean-Baptiste Casteras , Esko Heinonen , Ilkka Holopainen

On a compact n-dimensional manifold, it has been conjectured that a critical point metric of the total scalar curvature, restricted to the space of metrics with constant scalar curvature of unit volume, will be Einstein. This conjecture was…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-30 Gabjin Yun , Jeongwook Chang , Seungsu Hwang

We study the rigidity of compact submanifolds of Riemannian manifolds of arbitrary codimension that satisfy a sharp pinching condition involving the norm of the second fundamental form and the mean curvature. Without assuming that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Theodoros Vlachos

The title is self-explanatory. We aim to give an easy to read and self-contained introduction to the field of harmonic manifolds. Only basic knowledge of Riemannian geometry is required. After we gave the definition of harmonicity and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-06 Peter Kreyssig

We prove the general sharp mean value inequality for non-negative superharmonic functions and its corresponding rigidity, which removes the radius restriction of Schoen-Yau's classical result about this inequality. And we obtain an explicit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Zixuan Chen , Guoyi Xu , Shuai Zhang

In this paper, we prove the existence of $H^2$-regular coordinates on Riemannian $3$-manifolds with boundary, assuming only $L^2$-bounds on the Ricci curvature, $L^4$-bounds on the second fundamental form of the boundary, and a positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Stefan Czimek

An improvement of the Liouville theorem for discrete harmonic functions on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ is obtained. More precisely, we prove that there exists a positive constant $\varepsilon$ such that if $u$ is discrete harmonic on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Lev Buhovsky , Alexander Logunov , Eugenia Malinnikova , Mikhail Sodin

We prove that the Bergman space of a Stein manifold separates points whenever its Bergman metric is well defined and has non-positive constant holomorphic sectional curvature. This, combined with earlier proved results, shows that a Stein…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Xiaojun Huang and. Song-Ying Li

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

It was shown by Seaman that if a compact, oriented 4-dimensional riemannian manifold (M, g) of positive sectional curvature admits a harmonic 2-form of constant length, its intersection form is definite and such a harmonic form is unique up…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Inyoung Kim

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 harmonic maps from a 3-manifold with boundary to $\mathbb{S}^1$ and prove a special case of dihedral rigidity of three dimensional cubes whose dihedral angles are $\pi / 2$. Furthermore we give some applications to mapping torus…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Xiaoxiang Chai , Inkang Kim

On a compact three-dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary, we prove the compactness of the full set of conformal metrics with positive constant scalar curvature and constant mean curvature on the boundary. This involves a blow-up…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Sergio Almaraz , Shaodong Wang

We prove that a totally umbilical biharmonic surface in any $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifold has constant mean curvature. We use this to show that a totally umbilical surface in Thurston's 3-dimensional geometries is proper biharmonic if…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Ye-Lin Ou , Ze-Ping Wang

We prove a Liouville-type theorem for biharmonic maps from a complete Riemannian manifold of dimension \(n\) that has a lower bound on its Ricci curvature and positive injectivity radius into a Riemannian manifold whose sectional curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Volker Branding

A simplicial complex $X$ is said to be tight with respect to a field $\mathbb{F}$ if $X$ is connected and, for every induced subcomplex $Y$ of $X$, the linear map $H_\ast (Y; \mathbb{F}) \rightarrow H_\ast (X; \mathbb{F})$ (induced by the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Bhaskar Bagchi

In this paper we extend Yau's celebrated Liouville theorem to the biharmonic case. Namely, we show that in a complete Riemannian manifold with a pole and nonnegative Ricci curvature, any biharmonic function of subquadratic growth must be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-02 John E. Bravo , Jean C. Cortissoz

Motivated by Witten's spinor proof of the positive mass theorem, we analyze asymptotically constant harmonic spinors on complete asymptotically flat nonspin manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-26 Anda Degeratu , Mark Stern

We study the asymptotic Dirichlet problem for $\mathcal{A}$-harmonic functions on a Cartan-Hadamard manifold whose radial sectional curvatures outside a compact set satisfy an upper bound $$ K(P)\le - \frac{1+\varepsilon}{r(x)^2 \log r(x)}…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-01 Esko Heinonen

We study biharmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds with finite energy and finite bi-energy. We show that if the domain is complete and the target of non-positive curvature, then such a map is harmonic. We then give applications to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Nobumitsu Nakauchi , Hajime Urakawa , Sigmundur Gudmundsson