We discuss folklore statements about distance functions in manifolds with two sided bounded curvature. The topics include regularity, subsets of positive reach and the cut locus.
In this paper we prove an extrinsic one-sided curvature estimate for disks embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with constant mean curvature which is independent of the value of the constant mean curvature. We apply this extrinsic one-sided curvature estimate in [24] to prove to prove a weak chord arc type result for these disks. In Section 4 we apply this weak chord arc result to obtain an intrinsic version of the one-sided curvature estimate for disks embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with constant mean curvature. In a natural sense, these one-sided curvature estimates generalize respectively, the extrinsic …
We prove several sharp one-sided pinching estimates for immersed and embedded hypersurfaces evolving by various fully nonlinear, one-homogeneous curvature flows by the method of Stampacchia iteration. These include sharp estimates for the largest principal curvature and the inscribed curvature ('cylindrical estimates') for flows by concave speeds and a sharp estimate for the exscribed curvature for flows by convex speeds. Making use of a recent idea of Huisken and Sinestrari, we then obtain corresponding estimates for ancient solutions. In particular, this leads to various characterisations of…
We prove a sharp pinching estimate for immersed mean convex solutions of mean curvature flow which unifies and improves all previously known pinching estimates, including the umbilic estimate of Huisken, the convexity estimates of Huisken--Sinestrari and the cylindrical estimate of Huisken--Sinestrari. Namely, we show that the curvature of the solution pinches onto the convex cone generated by the curvatures of any shrinking cylinder solutions admitted by the initial data. For example, if the initial data is $(m+1)$-convex, then the curvature of the solution pinches onto the convex hull of the…
We study a notion of relative entropy motivated by self-expanders of mean curvature flow. In particular, we obtain the existence of this quantity for arbitrary hypersurfaces trapped between two disjoint self-expanders asymptotic to the same cone. This allows us to begin to develop the variational theory for the relative entropy functional for the associated obstacle problem. We also obtain a version of the forward monotonicity formula for mean curvature flow proposed by Ilmanen.
Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold of nonnegative Ricci curvature and $Σ$ a compact embedded 2-sided minimal hypersurface in $M$. It is proved that there is a dichotomy: If $Σ$ does not separate $M$ then $Σ$ is totally geodesic and $M\setminusΣ$ is isometric to the Riemannian product $Σ\times(a,b)$, and if $Σ$ separates $M$ then the map $i_*:π_1(Σ)\rightarrow π_1(M)$ induced by inclusion is surjective. This surjectivity is also proved for a compact 2-sided hypersurface with mean curvature $H\geq(n-1)\sqrt{k}$ in a manifold of Ricci curvature $Ric_M\geq-(n-1)k,k>0$, and for a free boundar…
We investigate regularization of riemannian metrics by mollification. Assuming both-sided bounds on the Ricci tensor and a lower injectivity radius bound we obtain a uniform estimate on the change of the sectional curvature. Actually, our result holds for any metric with a uniform bound on the $W^{2,p}$-harmonic radius.
We prove a gradient estimate for graphical spacelike mean curvature flow with a general Neumann boundary condition in dimension $n=2$. This then implies that the mean curvature flow exists for all time and converges to a translating solution.
In this paper we address the relationship between Gromov-Hausdorff limits and intrinsic flat limits of complete Riemannian manifolds. In \cite{SormaniWenger2010, SormaniWenger2011}, Sormani-Wenger show that for a sequence of Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature, a uniform upper bound on diameter, and non-collapsed volume, the intrinsic flat limit exists and agrees with the Gromov-Hausdorff limit. This can be viewed as a non-cancellation theorem showing that for such sequences, points don't cancel each other out in the limit. Here we prove a similar no-cancellation theorem, rep…
We discuss some consequences of the existence of the holomorphic quadratic Hopf differential on a conformally immersed constant mean curvature topological disc with analytic boundary. In particular, we derive a formula for the mean curvature as a weighted average of the normal curvature of the boundary curve, and a condition for the surface to be totally umbilic in terms of the normal curvature.
We study non-collapsed Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kähler manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below. Our main result is that each tangent cone is homeomorphic to a normal affine variety. This extends a result of Donaldson-Sun, who considered non-collapsed limits of polarized Kähler manifolds with two-sided Ricci curvature bounds.
In this short note, using an argument by Munteanu and Wang, we provide an alternative proof of the fact first obtained by Lei Ni that shrinking gradient Kähler-Ricci solitons with positive bisectional curvature must be compact.
We establish integral formulas and sharp two-sided bounds for the Ricci curvature, mean curvature and second fundamental form on a Riemannian manifold with boundary. As applications, sharp gradient and Hessian estimates are derived for the Dirichlet and Neumann eigenfunctions.
In [11], I. M. Gelfand, V. Retakh, and M. Shubin defined the symplectic sectional curvature of a torsion-free connection preserving a symplectic form. The present article defines the corresponding notion of constant symplectic sectional curvature and characterizes this notion in terms of the curvature tensor of the symplectic connection and its covariant derivatives. Some relations between various more general conditions on the symplectic sectional curvature and the geometry of the symplectic connection or that induced on a symplectic submanifold are explored as well.
We provide a general Böchner type formula which enables us to prove some rigidity results for $V$-static spaces. In particular, we show that an $n$-dimensional positive static triple with connected boundary and positive scalar curvature must be isometric to the standard hemisphere, provided that the metric has zero radial Weyl curvature and satisfies a suitable pinching condition. Moreover, we classify $V$-static spaces with non-negative sectional curvature.
We extend to higher codimension earlier characterization of the equatorial disk and the critical catenoid by a pinching condition on the length of their second fundamental form among free boundary minimal surfaces in the three dimensional Euclidean ball due to L. Ambrozio and I. Nunes.
We show a connection between the $CDE'$ inequality and the $CDψ$ inequality. In particular, we introduce a $CD_ψ^φ$ inequality as a slight generalization of $CDψ$ which turns out to be equivalent to $CDE'$ with appropriate choices of $φ$ and $ψ$. We use this to prove that the $CDE'$ inequality implies the classical $CD$ inequality on graphs, and that the $CDE'$ inequality with curvature bound zero holds on Ricci-flat graphs.
In this note we characterize compact hypersurfaces of dimension $n\geq 2$ with constant mean curvature $H$ immersed in space forms of constant curvature and satisfying an optimal integral pinching condition: they are either totally umbilical or, when $n\geq 3$ and $H\neq 0$, they are locally contained in a rotational hypersurface. In dimension two, the integral pinching condition reduces to a topological assumption and we recover the classical Hopf-Chern result.
Some remarks on Finsler manifolds with constant flag curvature
本文是对具有常正旗曲率的Finsler流形几何的四个松散相关的评论的阐述。<p>第一个注记是在这样一个流形的测地线空间上存在一个典型的Kahler结构。<p>第二点是,有一种自然的方法可以从复射影n-空间中适当一般位置的超曲面中构造一个(不一定是完备的)具有常正旗曲率的芬斯勒n-流形。<p>第三个注记是2-球面上常曲率的Finsler度量可用其测地线空间上的黎曼度量和1-形式来描述。特别地,这允许使用2-球面上正高斯曲率的任何(黎曼)Zoll度量来构造2-球面上常正曲率的全局Finsler度量。<p>第四点是关于维数n+1>2中具有常正旗曲率的(局部)Finsler度量空间的一般性。证明了这样的度量依赖于n(n+1)个n+1元的任意函数,并且这样的度量自然地对应于2n-流形上的某些无挠S^1 x GL(n,R)-结构.作为一个副产品,它被发现,这些群体确实出现的holonomy的挠自由仿射联络在2n维,迄今未被怀疑的现象。
We prove that the total CR $Q$-curvature vanishes for any compact strictly pseudoconvex CR manifold. We also prove the formal self-adjointness of the $P^\prime$-operator and the CR invariance of the total $Q^\prime$-curvature for any pseudo-Einstein manifold without the assumption that it bounds a Stein manifold.
We exhibit a curious link between the Quadratic Orthogonal Bisectional Curvature, combinatorics, and distance geometry. The Weitzenböck curvature operator, acting on real (1,1)--forms, is realized as the Dirichlet energy of a finite graph, weighted by a matrix of the curvature. These results also illuminate the difference in the nature of the Quadratic Orthogonal Bisectional Curvature and the Real Bisectional Curvature.
In this paper, we mainly study the mean curvature flow in Kähler surfaces with positive holomorphic sectional curvatures. First, we prove that if the ratio $λ$ of the maximum and the minimum of the holomorphic sectional curvatures $< 2$, then there exists a positive constant $δ>\frac{29(λ-1)}{\sqrt{(48-24λ)^{2}+(29λ-29)^{2}}}$ such that $\cosα\geqδ$ is preserved along the flow, improving the main theorem in [LY]; Secondly, as similar as the main theorem in [HL0], we prove that when $\cosα$ is close to $1$ enough, then the symplectic mean curvature flow exists for long time and converges to a h…
We show that every one-harmonic map, in the sense of Trapani and Valli, from a Hadamard surface of pinched negative curvature to $\mathbb{H}^2$ has image the interior of the convex hull of a subset of $\partial_\infty\mathbb{H}^2$. The proof relies on Minkowski geometry, by interpreting one-harmonic maps as the Gauss maps of convex surfaces.
This is a continuation of our first paper in [WY16]. There are two purposes of this paper: One is to give a proof of the main result in [WY16] without going through the argument depending on numerical effectiveness. The other one is to provide a proof of our conjecture, mentioned in [TY], where the assumption of negative holomorphic sectional curvature is dropped to quasi-negative. We should note that a solution to our conjecture is also provided by Diverio-Trapani [DT]. Both proofs depend on our argument in [WY16]. But our argument here makes use of the argument given by the second author and…
In this paper, we shall give a new upper diameter estimate for complete Riemannian manifolds in the case that the Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature has a positive lower bound and the norm of the potential function has an upper bound. Our diameter estimate improves previous ones obtained by Wei and Wylie (J. Differential Geom. 83, 377--405, 2009) and Limoncu (Math. Z. 271, 715--722, 2012). As an application, we shall give an upper diameter bound for compact Ricci solitons in terms of the maximum value of the scalar curvature. By using such a diameter bound, we shall provide some new sufficient condit…