arXiv research

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 radii, a volume growth rigidity theorem for the metric neighborhoods of the boundar…

According to a classical result of E.~Calabi any hyperbolic affine hypersphere endowed with its natural Hessian metric has a non-positive Ricci tensor. The affine hyperspheres can be described as the level sets of solutions to the "hyperbolic" toric Kähler-Einstein equation $e^Φ = \det D^2 Φ$ on proper convex cones. We…

Gradient estimates for special harmonic functions on manifolds.

The paper extends topological results to noncompact spaces with nonnegative N-Bakry Émery Ricci curvature.

The paper proves inequalities under Bakry-Émery-Ricci curvature bounds.

Proves volume comparison and monotonicity for Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature.

Proves Sobolev inequality on manifolds with specific curvature properties.

Extends a result on manifolds with specific curvature properties.

Derives gradient bounds for f-heat equations on manifolds with Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature.

Study preserves metrics with positive Bakry-Émry Ricci curvature via surgery.

In this paper we study some splitting properties on complete noncompact manifolds with smooth measures when $\infty$-dimensional Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature is bounded from below by some negative constant and spectrum of the weighted Laplacian has a positive lower bound. These results extend the cases of Ricci curvatur…

The Bakry-Émery-Ricci tensor is extended and comparison theorems are proven.

Eigenvalue estimates for Beltrami-Laplacian under specific curvature conditions.

In this paper we derive Cheng-Yau, Li-Yau, Hamilton estimates for Riemannian manifolds with Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature bounded from below, and also global and local upper bounds, in terms of Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature, for the Hessian of positive and bounded solutions of the weighted heat equation on a closed Riemann…

In this paper, we study stable weighted minimal hypersurfaces in manifolds with nonnegative Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature. We will give some geometric and topological applications. In particular, we give some partial classification of complete 3-manifolds with nonnegative Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature assuming that $f$ is …

The paper proves geometric comparisons on metric measure spaces with integral Bakry-Émery Ricci tensor bounds.

The study bounds heat kernel for manifolds with specific curvature conditions.

We study some function-theoretic properties on a complete smooth metric measure space $(M,g,e^{-f}dv)$ with Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature bounded from below. We derive a Moser's parabolic Harnack inequality for the $f$-heat equation, which leads to upper and lower Gaussian bounds on the $f$-heat kernel. We also prove $L^…

Comparison theorems in centro-affine differential geometry

Motivated and inspired by the recent work of Colding [5] and Colding-Minicozzi [6] we derive several families of monotonicity formulas for manifolds with nonnegative Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature, extending the formulas in [5, 6].

In this paper, we first prove a compactness theorem for the space of closed embedded $f$-minimal surfaces of fixed topology in a closed three-manifold with positive Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature. Then we give a Lichnerowicz type lower bound of the first eigenvalue of the $f$-Laplacian on compact manifold with positive $m…

We first extend Cheeger-Colding Almost Splitting Theorem to smooth metric measure spaces. Arguments utilizing this extension of the Almost Splitting Theorem show that if a smooth metric measure space has almost nonnegative Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature and a lower bound on volume, then its fundamental group is almost abe…

Analyticity of heat equation extended to Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature manifolds.

In this article, we prove gradient estimates under Bakry-Emery curvature bounds for unbounded graph Laplacians which satisfy an ellipticity assumption. As applications, we study completeness and finiteness of stochastically complete graphs under Bakry-Emery curvature bounds.

In this paper, we prove the extensions of Bonnet--Myers' type theorems obtained by Calabi and Cheeger--Gromov--Taylor via Bakry--Emery Ricci curvature, which generalize the results of \cite{FG, Lim1, Wan, Wang, WW, Wu}.

Paper proves new theorems about curvature in weighted manifolds.

For Riemannian manifolds with a measure $(M,g, e^{-f} dvol_g)$ we prove mean curvature and volume comparison results when the $\infty$-Bakry-Emery Ricci tensor is bounded from below and $f$ is bounded or $\partial_r f$ is bounded from below, generalizing the classical ones (i.e. when $f$ is constant). This leads to ext…

In this paper, we prove two generalized versions of the Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem via the non-negativity of the Bakry-Émery Ricci curavture on complete Riemannian manifolds.

Nearly spherical, positively curved surfaces are mapped from a sphere.

For Riemannian manifolds with a smooth measure $(M, g, e^{-f}dv_{g})$, we prove a generalized Myers compactness theorem when Bakry--Emery Ricci tensor is bounded from below and $f$ is bounded.

The paper proves Laplacian comparison theorems for modified m-Bakry-Emery Ricci tensors on Riemannian manifolds.

New lower bounds of the first nonzero eigenvalue of the weighted $p$-Laplacian are established on compact smooth metric measure spaces with or without boundaries. Under the assumption of positive lower bound for the $m$-Bakry--Émery Ricci curvature, the Escober--Lichnerowicz--Reilly type estimates are proved; under the…

In this paper, we compare Ollivier Ricci curvature and Bakry-Émery curvature notions on combinatorial graphs and discuss connections to various types of Ricci flatness. We show that non-negativity of Ollivier Ricci curvature implies non-negativity of Bakry-Émery curvature under triangle-freeness and an additional in-de…

We prove mean curvature and volume comparison estimates on smooth metric measure spaces when their integral Bakry-Émery Ricci tensor bounds, extending Wei-Wylie's comparison results to the integral case. We also apply comparison results to get diameter estimates, eigenvalue estimates and volume growth estimates on smoo…

In this paper, we first prove the $f$-mean curvature comparison in a smooth metric measure space when the Bakry-Emery Ricci tensor is bounded from below and $|f|$ is bounded. Based on this, we define a Myers-type compactness theorem by generalizing the results of Cheeger, Gromov, and Taylor and of Wan for the Bakry-Eme…

New volume comparison theorem for gradient Ricci almost solitons.

We introduce a notion of doubly warped product of weighted graphs that is consistent with the doubly warped product in the Riemannian setting. We establish various discrete Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature-dimension bounds for such warped products in terms of the curvature of the constituent graphs. This requires deliberate…

We consider the Hawking-Penrose singularity theorems and the Lorentzian splitting theorem under the weaker curvature condition of nonnegative Bakry-Emery-Ricci curvature $Ric_f^m$ in timelike directions. We prove that they still hold when $m$ is finite, and when $m$ is infinite, they hold under the additional assumptio…

In this paper we prove that on a complete smooth metric measure space with non-negative Bakry-Émery-Ricci curvature if the space of weighted L^2 harmonic one-forms is non-trivial then the weighted volume of the manifold is finite and universal cover of the manifold splits isometrically as the product of the real line w…

Paper explores entropic curvature in Markov chains, comparing it to other curvatures.

The study generalizes curvature bounds for manifolds with boundary.

The paper proves conditions for Einstein solitons to split into line and manifold.

The study shows black hole horizons at low temperatures have limited topology.

We consider a condition on the Ricci curvature involving vector fields, which is broader than the Bakry-Émery Ricci condition. Under this condition volume comparison, Laplacian comparison, isoperimetric inequality and gradient bounds are proven on the manifold. Specializing to the Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature condition,…

Study diameter bounds on Kähler and quaternionic Kähler manifolds with positive curvature.

The paper studies how to glue spaces with lower Ricci curvature bounds.

The study examines discrete curvature notions on Cayley graphs of certain groups.

We define a hybrid between Ollvier and Bakry Emery curvature on graphs with dependence on a variable neighborhood. The hexagonal lattice is non-negatively curved under this new curvature notion. Bonnet-Myers diameter bounds and Lichnerowicz eigenvalue estimates follow from the standard arguments. We prove gradient esti…