arXiv research

New Sobolev inequalities found for curved spaces.

This paper sets lower bounds for scalar curvatures in Ricci flow singularity models.

We consider complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds with quadratically decaying lower Ricci curvature bounds and minimal volume growth. We first prove a rigidity result showing that ends with strongly minimal volume growth are isometric to warped product manifolds. Next we consider the almost rigid case in which manif…

We give conditions which imply that a complete noncompact manifold with quadratic curvature decay has finite topological type. In particular, we find links between the topology of a manifold with quadractic curvature decay and some properties of the asymptotic cones of such a manifold.

We show that recent work of Ni and Wilking yields the result that a noncompact nonflat Ricci shrinker has at most quadratic scalar curvature decay. The examples of noncompact Kähler--Ricci shrinkers by Feldman, Ilmanen, and Knopf exhibit that this result is sharp.

We give sufficient conditions for a noncompact Riemannian manifold, which has quadratic curvature decay, to have finite topological type with ends that are cones over spherical space forms.

We show that there are topological obstructions for a noncompact manifold to admit a Riemannian metric with quadratic curvature decay and a volume growth which is slower than that of Euclidean space of the same dimension.

Study on Kähler manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature, focusing on rigidity.

We investigate the $L^p$-boundness of the Riesz transform on Riemannian manifolds whose Ricci curvature has quadratic decay. Two criteria for the $L^p$-unboundness of the Riesz transform are given. We recover known results about manifolds that are Euclidean or conical at infinity.

Sharp decay constant for positive scalar curvature metrics on manifolds.

The study proves manifolds with positive scalar curvature can be decomposed into spherical and toroidal pieces.

This paper concerns integral varifolds of arbitrary dimension in an open subset of Euclidean space satisfying integrability conditions on their first variation. Firstly, the study of pointwise power decay rates almost everywhere of the quadratic tilt-excess is completed by establishing the precise decay rate for two-di…

This is our second paper in a series to study gravitational instantons, i.e. complete hyperkäler 4-manifolds with faster than quadratic curvature decay. We prove two main theorems: 1.The asymptotic rate of gravitational instantons to the standard models can be improved automatically. 2.Any ALF-D_k gravitational instant…

Survey of recent progress in gravitational instantons

Gradient shrinking solitons from Ricci flows terminating in cones.

Flat Ricci-flat manifolds with bounded gradient of Green function are flat.

New findings on gradient expanding Ricci solitons with finite scalar curvature ratio.

Study on scalar curvature decay on non-compact manifolds linked at infinity.

We prove the weak stability of expanding gradient Ricci solitons with positive curvature operator and quadratic curvature decay at infinity.

Let $(M, g)$ be a complete non-compact Kähler manifold with non-negative and bounded holomorphic bisectional curvature. Extending our techniques developed in \cite{CT3}, we prove that the universal cover $\wt M$ of $M$ is biholomorphic to $\ce^n$ provided either that $(M, g)$ has average quadratic curvature decay, or $…

We study minimal hypersurfaces in manifolds of non-negative Ricci curvature, Euclidean volume growth and quadratic curvature decay at infinity. By comparison with capped spherical cones, we identify a precise borderline for the Ricci curvature decay. Above this value, no complete area-minimizing hypersurfaces exist. Be…

We prove that any complete metric on R^3 minus a ball with non-negative Ricci curvature and quadratic Ricci-curvature decay, has cubic volume growth.

In this paper, we study gravitational instantons (i.e., complete hyperkäler 4-manifolds with faster than quadratic curvature decay). We prove three main theorems: 1.Any gravitational instanton must have known end----ALE, ALF, ALG or ALH. 2.In ALG and ALH-non-splitting cases, it must be biholomorphic to a compact comple…

In this paper we obtain three results concerning the geometry of complete noncompact positively curved Kähler manifolds at infinity. The first one states that the order of volume growth of a complete noncompact Kähler manifold with positive bisectional curvature is at least half of the real dimension (i.e., the complex…

The authors prove that the logarithmic Monge-Ampère flow with uniformly bound and convex initial data satisfies uniform decay estimates away from time $t=0$. Then applying the decay estimates, we conclude that every entire classical strictly convex solution of the equation {equation*} \det D^{2}u=\exp\{n(-u+1/2\sum_{i=…

The study uses Ricci flow to prove flatness of certain Riemannian manifolds.

We study minimal graphic functions on complete Riemannian manifolds $\Si$ with non-negative Ricci curvature, Euclidean volume growth and quadratic curvature decay. We derive global bounds for the gradients for minimal graphic functions of linear growth only on one side. Then we can obtain a Liouville type theorem with …

Study on finite energy SU(2) monopoles on AC 3-manifolds, proving integrality of charge and curvature decay.

There is a conjecture that a complete Riemannian 3-manifold with bounded sectional curvature, and pointwise pinched nonnegative Ricci curvature, must be flat or compact. We show that this is true when the negative part (if any) of the sectional curvature decays quadratically.

The paper proves scalar curvature decay for uniformly contractible manifolds with finite asymptotic dimension.

Under the quadratic-decay-conditions of the radial curvatures of an end, we shall derive growth estimates of solutions to the eigenvalue equation and show the absence of eigenvalues.

We show that $H$-hypersurfaces of $\mathbb{H}^{n}\times \mathbb{R}$ contained in a vertical cylinder and with Ricci curvature with strong quadratic decay have mean curvature $| H| > (n-1)/n$.

In this short note, we find a new gap phenomena on Riemannian manifolds, which says that for any complete noncompact Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature, if the scalar curvature decays faster than quadratically, then it is Ricci flat.

The study confirms positivity of Q-curvatures for specific conformal metrics.

New decay estimates for scalar curvature of steady gradient Ricci solitons.

The paper studies steady solitons with curvature decay and proves their smoothness.

The paper establishes curvature estimates for solitons in higher dimensions.

In this paper, by combining techniques from Ricci flow and algebraic geometry, we prove the following generalization of the classical uniformization theorem of Riemann surfaces. Given a complete noncompact complex two dimensional Kähler manifold $M$ of positive and bounded holomorphic bisectional curvature, suppose its…

In this paper we prove new classification results for nonnegatively curved gradient expanding and steady Ricci solitons in dimension three and above, under suitable integral assumptions on the scalar curvature of the underlying Riemannian manifold. In particular we show that the only complete expanding solitons with no…

Let $(M^n, g)$ be a complete non-compact Kähler manifold with non-negative and bounded holomorphic bisectional curvature. We prove that $M$ is holomorphically covered by a pseudoconvex domain in $\C^n$ which is homeomorphic to $\R^{2n}$, provided $(M^n, g)$ has uniform linear average quadratic curvature decay.

In this paper we prove a local removable singularity theorem for certain minimal laminations with isolated singularities in a Riemannian three-manifold. This removable singularity theorem is the key result used in our proof that a complete, embedded minimal surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with quadratic decay of curvature ha…

Study mean curvature flow of high codimension submanifolds in complex projective space.

The study proves uniqueness of large isoperimetric sets in specific noncompact manifolds.

We prove compactification theorems for some complete Kähler manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Among other things, we prove that a complete noncompact Kähler Ricci flat manifold with maximal volume growth and quadratic curvature decay is a crepant resolution of a normal affine algebraic variety. Furthermore, s…

In this paper, we consider the scalar curvature of Yamabe solitons. In particular we show that, with natural conditions and non positive Ricci curvature, any complete Yamabe soliton has constant scalar curvature, namely, it is a Yamabe metric. We also show that the quadratic decay at infinity of the Ricci curvature of …

In this paper, we study the topology of complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds with asymptotically nonnegative Ricci curvature. We show that a complete noncompact manifold with asymptoticaly nonnegative Ricci curvature and sectional curvature decay at most quadratically is diffeomorphic to a Euclidean n-space R^n und…

We give sharp sectional curvature estimates for complete immersed cylindrically bounded $m$-submanifolds $φ:M\to N\times\mathbb{R}^{\ell}$, $n+\ell\leq 2m-1$ provided that either $φ$ is proper with the second fundamental form with certain controlled growth or $M$ has scalar curvature with strong quadratic decay. This l…

We study the asymptotic behavior of the Kähler-Ricci flow on Kähler manifolds of nonnegative holomorphic bisectional curvature. Using these results we prove that a complete noncompact Kähler manifold with nonnegative bounded holomorphic bisectional curvature and maximal volume growth is biholomorphic to complex Euclide…