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The author studies lower bounds on volumes and \(L^{n/2}\)-norms of scalar curvatures for some compact manifolds of negative curvature. He proves that for \(n\geq 4\), if \((M,g)\) is a compact Riemannian \(n\)-manifold with scalar curvature \(S(g)< 0\) and if \(g_t\) is the Ricci flow starting at \(g\) with \(S(g_t)\leq 0 \), then \[ \frac{d}{dt} \Biggl( \int_M| S(g_t)|^{n/2}dv_{g_t} \Biggr)\leq 0. \] Under the above conditions, if the Ricci flow converges to a smooth metric \(h\) on \(M\), then \[ \int_M| S(g)|^{n/2}dv_g\geq \int_M| S(h)|^{n/2}dv_h. \] The above inequality for a compact Kähler-Einstein surface of negative scalar curvature is proved as well. Applying some of the results to an isospectral problem, it is obtained that for a compact rank one locally symmetric \(4\)-manifolds \((M,h)\) of noncompact type, if \(g\) is a Riemannian metric on \(M\) having the same spectrum as \(h\), then \(g\) is isometric to \(h\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0870.00032].