The number of cusps of complete Riemannian manifolds with finite volume (Q1722043)

Let $E$ be an end of a Riemannian manifold $M_n$. Then the number of ends (cusps) can be counted via the bottom of Neumann spectrum $\mu_1(M)$ as the following theorem shows: Theorem 1.2. Let $(M,g,e_f,dv)$ be a complete smooth metric measure space. Assume for some nonnegative constants $\alpha$ and $\beta$, \[ |f|(x)\leq \alpha r(x)+\beta \] for $x\in M$ with Ricci curvature bounded from below by $\mathrm{Ric}_f\geq-(n-1)$. Assume that $M$ has finite volume given by $V_f$, and \[ \mu_1(M)\geq \dfrac{(n-1 +\alpha)^2}{4}. \] Let us denote $N(M)$ to be the number of ends (cusps) of $M$. Then there exists a constant $C(n)>0$ depending only on $n$, such that, \[ N(M)\leq C(n) (\dfrac{V_f}{V_{o,f}(1)})^2 \ln (\dfrac{V_f}{V_{o,f}(1)}), \] where $V_{o,f}(1)$ denotes the $f$-volume of the unit ball centered at any fixed point $o\in M$.