Rigidity of manifolds with Bakry–émery Ricci curvature bounded below
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- 作者：Yan-Hui Su (12) suyanhui@mail2.sysu.edu.cn
Hui-Chun Zhang (2) zhhuich@mail2.sysu.edu.cn - 关键词：Bakry–Emery Ricci curvature – Splitting type theorem – Spectrum
- 刊名：Geometriae Dedicata
- 出版年：2012
- 出版时间：October 2012
- 年：2012
- 卷：160
- 期：1
- 页码：321-331
- 全文大小：172.8 KB
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- ISSN：1572-9168
文摘
Let M be a complete Riemannian manifold with Riemannian volume vol g and f be a smooth function on M. A sharp upper bound estimate on the first eigenvalue of symmetric diffusion operator Df = D- ?f ·?{\Delta_f = \Delta- \nabla f \cdot \nabla} was given by Wu (J Math Anal Appl 361:10–18, 2010) and Wang (Ann Glob Anal Geom 37:393–402, 2010) under a condition that finite dimensional Bakry–émery Ricci curvature is bounded below, independently. They propounded an open problem is whether there is some rigidity on the estimate. In this note, we will solve this problem to obtain a splitting type theorem, which generalizes Li–Wang’s result in Wang (J Differ Geom 58:501–534, 2001, J Differ Geom 62:143–162, 2002). For the case that infinite dimensional Bakry–Emery Ricci curvature of M is bounded below, we do not expect any upper bound estimate on the first eigenvalue of Δ f without any additional assumption (see the example in Sect. 2). In this case, we will give a sharp upper bound estimate on the first eigenvalue of Δ f under the additional assuption that |?f|{|\nabla f|} is bounded. We also obtain the rigidity result on this estimate, as another Li–Wang type splitting theorem.