Continuity of the isoperimetric profile of a complete Riemannian manifold under sectional curvature conditions (Q520721)

In this paper, the author considers the class of complete Riemannian manifolds \(M\) possessing a strictly convex Lipschitz continuous exhaustion function \(f \in C^\infty(M)\) (exhaustion function means that the sublevels \(C_r = \{x \in M:f(x) \leq r\}\) of \(f\), \( r \in {\mathbb R}\), are compact subsets of \(M\)). The main result of this paper states that the isoperimetric profile of a manifold \(M\) in the class above is a continuous and nondecreasing function. Particular cases are Hadamard manifolds and complete non-compact manifolds with strictly positive sectional curvature. The isoperimetric profile of a Riemannian manifold is defined as follows: For \(|M|\) the total measure of the Riemannian manifold \(M\), the isoperimetric profile is the function \(I_M: (0,|M|) \longrightarrow {\mathbb R}^+\), \[ I_M(v) = \inf\{P(E): E \subset M \text{ measurable}, |E| = v\}, \] where \(P(E)\) is the perimeter of the measurable subset \(E\) of \(M\), \[ P(E) = \sup\{\int_E\operatorname{div}X \mathrm{d} M: X \in \mathcal {X}^1_0(E), \|X\|_\infty \leq 1\}, \] where \(X\) is a vector field on \(M\) with compact support, and \(\operatorname{div} X\) is the Riemannian divergence of \(X\).