Transverse Weitzenböck formulas and curvature dimension inequalities on Riemannian foliations with totally geodesic leaves

DOI10.4310/CAG.2016.V24.N5.A1MaRDI QIDQ2396636zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Fabrice Baudoin, Bumsik Kim, Jing Wang

Publication date 24 May 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.0548

zbMATH Keywords

Bochner methodRiemannian foliationsub-Riemannian geometryWeitzenböck formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17)

Abstract: We prove a family of new Weitzenb"ock formulas on a Riemannian foliation with totally geodesic leaves. These Weitzenb"ock formulas are naturally parametrized by the canonical variation of the metric. As a consequence, under natural geometric conditions, the horizontal Laplacian satisfies a generalized curvature dimension inequality. Among other things, this curvature dimension inequality implies Li-Yau estimates for positive solutions of the horizontal heat equation and a sub-Riemannian Bonnet-Myers compactness theorem whose assumptions only rely on the intrinsic geometry of the horizontal distribution.

Review text

The overall project this paper is part of, is to develop geometric analysis methods in sub-Riemannian geometry. It follows earlier work by the first author and collaborators, which generalizes results by Bochner, linking the geometry and topology of a Riemannian manifold with the analysis of a Laplace operator. The paper under review considers manifolds endowed with a Yang-Mills-type Riemannian foliation with totally geodesic leaves and a bracket generating horizontal distribution. They model a large class of sub-Riemannian structures with transverse symmetries, such as those arising in homogeneous spaces. The authors introduce a canonical one-parameter family of horizontal Laplacians on 1-forms and prove Weitzenböck-Bochner-type inequalities. Using them, they prove a curvature dimension estimate and the stochastic completeness of the heat semigroup. These are the main ingredients that realize Bochner's program, as shown in earlier papers by the first author and collaborators. The Weitzenböck-Bochner-type inequalities simplify the results in these papers and are interesting on their own right.

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