The gradient of certain harmonic functions on manifolds of almost nonnegative Ricci curvature

DOI10.1007/BF02773166MaRDI QIDQ1601477zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Smith

Publication date 17 February 2003

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02773166

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic functionRicci curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Review text

Let \(\gamma(t)\), \(0\leq t\leq L\) be a minimal geodesic in the Riemannian manifold \(M^n\) with almost non-negative Ricci curvature \(Ric \geq - (n-1)H\), and \(p\) a point such that \(\text{dist}(p,\gamma(t))< \delta L\) for some \(L/3 < t < 2L/3\). In the ball \(B_L(p)\) define a harmonic function \(b\) whose boundary values equal \(\text{dist}(x,\gamma(0))\) for \(x\in \partial B_L(p)\). In the paper under review the author proves that the gradient \(\nabla b\) of the function \(b\) does not vanish if \(L^{-1}, H, \delta\) are sufficiently small and the ball \(B_L(p)\) is close enough in the Gromov-Hausdorff distance to the Euclidean ball of the same radius.

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