Study on the spectrum of drift Laplacian on Ricci expanders.
problem Analyzing the spectrum of the drift Laplacian on Ricci expanders.
method Investigation of discrete spectrum under proper potential function, asymptotic behavior of potential function, and computation of eigenvalues.
result Discrete spectrum of the drift Laplacian on Ricci expanders with bounded Ricci curvature.
Paper finds lower bounds for eigenvalues of Bi-drifted Laplacian on smooth metric measure spaces.
problem Eigenvalue problems for Bi-drifted Laplacian on compact manifolds with boundary conditions.
method Obtained lower bounds using specific curvature conditions.
result Lower bounds for the first eigenvalue of Bi-drifted Laplacian.
Sharp bounds found for bi-drifting Laplacian eigenvalues.
problem Eigenvalue problems for bi-drifting Laplacian on manifolds.
method Sharp lower bounds derived for the first eigenvalue.
result Found sharp lower bounds for the first eigenvalue.
Study heat traces for drifting Laplacian and Schrödinger operators on manifolds.
problem Analyzing heat traces for drifting Laplacian and Schrödinger operators on manifolds.
method Proved asymptotic expansions and remainder estimates for heat traces under different regularity conditions.
result The asymptotic behavior of the remainder is determined by higher regularity of the potential or weight function.
Study precise asymptotic behavior of functions in singular metric spaces.
problem Singular metric spaces with incomplete geometry.
method Expansions of quasi-harmonic and eigenfunctions.
result More precise description of asymptotic behavior at infinity.
We consider a complete noncompact smooth Riemannian manifold M with a weighted measure and the associated drifting Laplacian. We demonstrate that whenever the q-Bakry-Émery Ricci tensor on M is bounded below, then we can obtain an upper bound estimate for the heat kernel of the drifting Laplacian from the upper b…
This paper concerns the L2 essential spectrum of the Laplacian Δ and the drift Laplacian Δf on complete Riemannian manifolds endowed with a weighted measure e−fdvolg. We prove that the essential spectrum of the drift Laplacian Δf is [0,+∞) provided the Bakry-Émery curvature tensor Ricf is …
In this paper, we extend the Reilly formula for drifting Laplacian operator and apply it to study eigenvalue estimate for drifting Laplacian operators on compact Riemannian manifolds boundary. Our results on eigenvalue estimates extend previous results of Reilly and Choi and Wang.
In this paper, we investigate eigenvalues of the Dirichlet problem and the closed eigenvalue problem of drifting Laplacian on the complete metric measure spaces and establish the corresponding general formulas. By using those general formulas, we give some upper bounds of consecutive gap of the eigenvalues of the eigen…
Study eigenvalues of drift Laplacian on symmetric self-shrinkers in R^3.
problem Estimating the first eigenvalue of the drift Laplacian on symmetric self-shrinkers.
method Analyzing the dihedral and prismatic groups to prove the first eigenvalue is 1/2.
result Proved that the first eigenvalue of the drift Laplacian is 1/2 for symmetric self-shrinkers.
The paper proves conditions for a manifold to have the Liouville property for the drifted Laplacian.
problem Conditions for a manifold to have the Liouville property for the drifted Laplacian.
method Local gradient estimates for positive solutions to the semilinear equation and structural conditions on F.
result The manifold has the Liouville property for the drifted Laplacian under specific curvature conditions.
Paper finds inequalities for eigenvalues of buckling problems on special metric spaces.
problem Eigenvalue inequalities for buckling problems of drifting Laplacian.
method Investigated on bounded domains in complete smooth metric measure spaces (SMMSs) with special functions.
result General inequalities for eigenvalues derived under curvature constraints.
Study sharp asymptotic estimates for conical ends using frequency functions.
problem Proving sharp asymptotic estimates for almost eigenfunctions of drift Laplacians on conical ends.
method Used a weighted variant of Almgren's frequency functions.
result Obtained a purely elliptic proof of uniqueness of self-shrinkers and self-expanders of the mean curvature flow.
By introducing a weight function to the Laplace operator, Bakry and Émery defined the "drift Laplacian" to study diffusion processes. Our first main result is that, given a Bakry-Émery manifold, there is a naturally associated family of graphs whose eigenvalues converge to the eigenvalues of the drift Laplacian as the …
The paper examines spectral properties and rigidity of self-expanding solutions in mean curvature flows.
problem Spectral properties and rigidity of self-expanding solutions in mean curvature flows.
method Analysis of the spectrum of the drifted Laplacian and weighted stability operator.
result The Euclidian subspace through the origin is the unique self-expander where the bottom of the spectrum of the drifted Laplacian is achieved.
Lower bounds for eigenvalues on manifolds with boundary conditions.
problem Eigenvalue bounds for manifolds with boundary conditions.
method Proving lower bounds for the first non-trivial eigenvalue using Cheeger-type constants.
result Results in the spirit of Cheeger's inequality for manifolds with boundary conditions.
Let (Mn,h) be a compact Hermitian manifold. Suppose λ is the lowest eigenvalue of the complex Laplacian on M. We prove that λ≥C where C depends only on the dimension n, the diameter d, the Ricci curvature of the Levi-Civita connection on M, and a norm, expressed in curvature, that determines how m…
Sharp eigenvalue bounds and splitting for modified Ricci flow.
problem Eigenvalue bounds and splitting in modified Ricci flow.
method Sharp lower bounds for eigenvalues of the drift Laplacian for a modified Ricci flow.
result Splitting theorem in the case of equality.
The paper studies geometric properties of self-shrinkers in shrinking Ricci solitons.
problem Understanding geometric properties of self-shrinkers in specific geometric settings.
method Proved spectral properties of drifted Laplacian and used them to derive geometric properties.
result Described domains in the ambient space that cannot contain self-shrinkers.
In this paper, we study Lichnerowicz type estimate for eigenvalues of drifting Laplacian operator and L1 and L2 energy for drifting heat equation on closed manifolds with weighted measure. In some sense, this study is about the eigenvalue estimate on Ricci solitons.
I In this paper, first we study a complete smooth metric measure space (Mn,g,e−fdv) with the (∞)-Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature Ricf≥2ag for some positive constant a. It is known that the spectrum of the drifted Laplacian Δf for M is discrete and the first nonzero eigenvalue of $Δ…
Study geometric and analytical properties of ρ-Einstein solitons.
problem Characterize geometric and analytical features of ρ-Einstein solitons. method Analyze the spectrum of the drifted Laplacian operator and prove volume growth estimates.
result Establish new volume growth estimates for geodesic balls of complete noncompact ρ-Einstein solitons. We consider an analytic family of Riemannian metrics on a compact smooth manifold M. We assume the Dirichlet boundary condition for the η-Laplacian and obtain Hadamard type variation formulas for analytic curves of eigenfunctions and eigenvalues. As an application, we show that for a subset of all Cr Riemannian …
The purpose of this paper is to prove the uniqueness theorem of solutions of eigenvalue equations on one end of Riemannian manifolds for drift Laplacians, including the standard Laplacian as a special case; we shall impose "a sort of radiation condition" at infinity on solutions. We shall also provide several Riemannia…
Eigenvalue estimates for Beltrami-Laplacian under specific curvature conditions.
problem Estimating eigenvalues of the Beltrami-Laplacian on manifolds with Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature.
method Using Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature conditions, the paper derives lower bounds for eigenvalues of the Beltrami-Laplacian.
result Lower bounds for eigenvalues of the Beltrami-Laplacian depend on curvature, gradient bounds, dimension, and diameter of the manifold.
The paper finds a lower bound for a Neumann eigenvalue of surfaces with flat ends.
problem Finding a lower bound for the first Neumann eigenvalue of surfaces with asymptotically flat ends.
method Integration of Bouchner's formula with contributions from A. Lichnerowicz, S. Brendle, R. Tsiamis, and Poincare's constant.
result Obtains a lower bound for the first Neumann eigenvalue of properly embedded surfaces.
Researchers calculate spectral invariants from Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for Witten-Laplacian with potential.
problem Calculating spectral invariants from Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for Witten-Laplacian with potential.
method Established an effective procedure to calculate all coefficients of the spectral asymptotic formula of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map.
result Explicitly provided the first four coefficients of the spectral asymptotic formula.
We consider a complete noncompact smooth metric measure space (Mn,g,e−fdv) and the associated drifting Laplacian. We find sufficient conditions on the geometry of the space so that every nonnegative f-subharmonic function with bounded weighted L1 norm is constant.
The paper examines the rigidity of eigenvalues in shrinking Ricci solitons.
problem Rigidity of eigenvalues in shrinking Ricci solitons.
method Analysis of the drifted Laplacian on shrinking Ricci solitons, showing eigenvalue bounds and rigidity results.
result If the nextth eigenvalue is close to a lower bound, the n-soliton must be the trivial Gaussian soliton. The paper establishes eigenvalue inequalities for a specific operator on curved spaces.
problem Eigenvalue estimation for a specific operator on curved domains.
method Bochner type formula and Rauch comparison theorem.
result Universal inequalities for eigenvalues of the drifted Cheng-Yau operator.
Treebolic space HT(q,p) is a key example of a strip complex in the sense of Bendikov, Saloff-Coste, Salvatori, and Woess [Adv. Math. 226 (2011), 992-1055]. It is an analog of the Sol geometry, namely, it is a horocylic product of the hyperbolic upper half plane with a "stretching" parameter q and the homogeneous tree T…
In this paper we prove general inequalities involving the weighted mean curvature of compact submanifolds immersed in weighted manifolds. As a consequence we obtain a relative linear isoperimetric inequality for such submanifolds. We also prove an extrinsic upper bound to the first non zero eigenvalue of the drift Lapl…
The study pinches self-shrinking hypersurfaces in Euclidean space.
problem Pinching and rigidity of self-shrinking hypersurfaces.
method Weighted Poincaré inequality and eigenvalue estimates.
result Self-shrinking hypersurfaces are generalized round cylinders.
We study space-like self-shrinkers of dimension n in pseudo-Euclidean space $\ir{m+n}_m$with index m. We derive drift Laplacian of the basic geometric quantities and obtain their volume estimates in pseudo-distance function. Finally, we prove a rigidity results under minor growth conditions interms of the mean curv…
Sharp bounds and rigidity theorems for eigenvalues on manifolds.
problem Estimating eigenvalues and characterizing rigidity on manifolds.
method Volume comparison, Escobar-type eigenvalue comparisons, and Reilly formula.
result Sharp bounds and rigidity conditions for eigenvalues on manifolds.
Estimates the first eigenvalue of a Laplacian on self-shrinkers in Ricci shrinkers.
problem Estimating the first eigenvalue of a Laplacian on self-shrinkers in Ricci shrinkers.
method Analyzes the drifted Laplacian on hypersurfaces in Ricci shrinkers, proving a lower bound for the first nonzero eigenvalue.
result Provides a lower bound for the first nonzero eigenvalue of the drifted Laplacian on embedded f-minimal hypersurfaces.
Study eigenfunctions of a singular quasi-Laplacian on a non-complete metric.
problem Eigenfunctions of a singular quasi-Laplacian on a non-complete metric.
method Analyzing eigenfunctions of the quasi-Laplacian and drifted Laplacian.
result Non-constant eigenfunctions of the quasi-Laplacian and drifted Laplacian are discontinuous at infinity.
The Bakry-Émery-Ricci tensor is extended and comparison theorems are proven.
problem Extending the Bakry-Émery-Ricci tensor and proving comparison theorems.
method Generalizations of the drifted Laplacian and Bakry-Émery-Ricci tensor, mean curvature comparison theorem, Myers-type theorem, Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem.
result Proved a version of the mean curvature comparison theorem and its consequences.
Let (Mn+1,g) be a compact Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary B and nonnegative Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature. In this paper, we use the solvability of some elliptic equations to prove some estimates of the weighted mean curvature and some related rigidity theorems. As their applications, we obtain some lower …
The Lie group Sol(p,q) is the semidirect product induced by the action of the real numbers R on the plane R^2 which is given by (x,y) --> (exp{p z} x, exp{-q z} y), where z is in R. Viewing Sol(p,q) as a 3-dimensional manifold, it carries a natural Riemannian metric and Laplace-Beltrami operator. We add a linear drift …
We describe min-max formulas for the principal eigenvalue of a V-drift Laplacian defined by a vector field V on a geodesic ball of a Riemannian manifold N. Then we derive comparison results for the principal eigenvalue with the one of a spherically symmetric model space endowed with a radial vector field, under p…
Introduces a new Hodge theory using vector fields on manifolds.
problem Developing a new Hodge theory for manifolds with vector fields.
method Defines a vector field induced Hodge L2-inner product, codifferential, and Laplacian. result Established de Rham-Hodge theory for closed and boundary manifolds.
In this paper, we study the Lagrangian F-stability and Hamiltonian F-stability of Lagrangian self-shrinkers. We prove a characterization theorem for the Hamiltonian F-stability of n-dimensional complete Lagrangian self-shrinkers without boundary, with polynomial volume growth and with the second fundamental form sati…
Paper finds gradient estimates for warped product gradient almost Ricci solitons.
problem Nonexistence of certain gradient almost Ricci solitons.
method Modified Li-Yau technique to estimate warping function gradients.
result Nonexistence theorem for specific gradient almost Ricci solitons.
New metrics on 3D manifolds with large Steklov eigenvalues.
problem Finding metrics with large Steklov eigenvalues on compact manifolds.
method Expressed Steklov spectrum of warped products and applied to metrics with fixed volume.
result Examples of metrics on 3D manifolds with arbitrarily large first non-zero Steklov eigenvalue.
Prove that collapsing CSC metrics can be perturbed to invariant collapsing CSC metrics.
problem Prove that collapsing constant scalar curvature metrics can be perturbed to invariant collapsing constant scalar curvature metrics.
method Prove that a sequence of constant scalar curvature metrics which is collapsing with bounded curvature to a manifold can be perturbed to a sequence of invariant collapsing constant scalar curvature metrics.
result Prove that a sequence of constant scalar curvature metrics which is collapsing with bounded curvature to a manifold can be perturbed to a sequence of invariant collapsing constant scalar curvature metrics.
The paper classifies special hypersurfaces in space forms.
problem Investigating gradient Yamabe solitons in space forms.
method Using the weak Omori-Yau principle for the drifted Laplacian.
result Gradient Yamabe solitons are fully classified under certain conditions.
We study geometric properties of complete non-compact bounded self-shrinkers and obtain natural restrictions that force these hypersurfaces to be compact. Furthermore, we observe that, to a certain extent, complete self-shrinkers intersect transversally a hyperplane through the origin. When such an intersection is comp…