The almost rigidity of manifolds with lower bounds on Ricci curvature and minimal volume growth

DOI10.4310/CAG.2000.V8.N1.A6MaRDI QIDQ1971640zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christina Sormani

Publication date 14 October 2001

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9903171

zbMATH Keywords

Busemann functioncomparison theoremdiameter growthRicci curvaturerigidity theoremvolume growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

Abstract: We consider complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds with quadratically decaying lower Ricci curvature bounds and minimal volume growth. We first prove a rigidity result showing that ends with strongly minimal volume growth are isometric to warped product manifolds. Next we consider the almost rigid case in which manifolds with nonnegative and quadratically decaying lower Ricci curvature bounds have minimal volume growth. Compact regions in such manifolds are shown to be asymptotically close to warped products in the Gromov-Hausdorff topology. Manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and linear volume growth are shown to have regions which are asymptotically close to being isometric products. The proofs involve a careful analysis of the Busemann functions on these manifolds using the recently developed Cheeger-Colding Almost Rigidity Theory. In addition, we show that the diameters of the level sets of Busemann functions in such manifolds grow sublinearly.

Review text

A complete, noncompact Riemannian manifold that satisfies a certain quadratically decaying lower bound on the Ricci curvature has a lower bound on the growth of the volume of metric balls. The author investigates the asymptotic behavior of such spaces under the added assumption that this minimal volume growth is achieved. For example, manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature whose volume growth is linear are among the class of manifolds studied here. The analysis of the Busemann function associated to a ray plays a major role in this investigation. See also the author's two earlier papers [J. Differ. Geom. 48, 557-585 (1998; Zbl 0901.53029) and Pac. J. Math. 192, 183-189 (2000; Zbl 0951.53021)].

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