Smooth metric measure spaces with weighted Poincaré inequality (Q1944797)

The paper studies complete smooth metric measure spaces \((M,g,e^{-f} dv)\) satisfying a weighted Poincaré inequality, \(M\) having dimension at least three. The authors establish a rigidity theorem for such a space under a suitable Bakry-Émery curvature lower bound; describing \(M\) with one or two \(f\)-nonparabolic ends (\(M\) is a warped product in this last possibility). They also consider the space of \(f\)-harmonic functions with finite energy and prove the following structure theorem: The space of \(f\)-harmonic functions with finite energy on \(M\) are \(\mathbb{R}\) or \(M\) has a suitable warped product metric.