Price Inequalities and Betti Number Growth on Manifolds without Conjugate Points

DOI10.4310/CAG.2022.V30.N2.A3MaRDI QIDQ6285769arXivFDO

Authors Luca Fabrizio Di Cerbo, Mark Stern

Publication date 20 April 2017

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Hodge theory in global analysis (58A14)

Abstract: We derive Price inequalities for harmonic forms on manifolds without conjugate points and with a negative Ricci upper bound. The techniques employed in the proof work particularly well for manifolds of non-positive sectional curvature, and in this case we prove a strengthened Price inequality. We employ these inequalities to study the asymptotic behavior of the Betti numbers of coverings of Riemannian manifolds without conjugate points. Finally, we give a vanishing result for

L^{2}

-Betti numbers of closed manifolds without conjugate points.

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