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Comparison theorems on H-type sub-Riemannian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2025-05-06 v2

Abstract

On H-type sub-Riemannian manifolds we establish sub-Hessian and sub-Laplacian comparison theorems which are uniform for a family of approximating Riemannian metrics converging to the sub-Riemannian one. We also prove a sharp sub-Riemannian Bonnet-Myers theorem that extends to this general setting results previously proved on contact and quaternionic contact manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1909.03532,
  title  = {Comparison theorems on H-type sub-Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {Fabrice Baudoin and Erlend Grong and Luca Rizzi and Sylvie Vega-Molino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.03532},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Final version, to appear on Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations

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