Analysis of weighted Laplacian and applications to Ricci solitons

Details Analysis of weighted Laplacian and applications to Ricci solitons Analysis of weighted Laplacian and applications to Ricci solitons

2011-12-13

arxiv.org/abs/1112.3027v1

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

Will appear in Comm. Anal. Geom

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We study both function theoretic and spectral properties of the weighted Laplacian $\Delta_f$ on complete smooth metric measure space $(M,g,e^{-f}dv)$ with its Bakry-\'{E}mery curvature $Ric_f$ bounded from below by a constant. In particular, we establish a gradient estimate for positive $f-$harmonic functions and a sharp upper bound of the bottom spectrum of $\Delta_f$ in terms of the lower bound of $Ric_{f}$ and the linear growth rate of $f.$ We also address the rigidity issue when the bottom spectrum achieves its optimal upper bound under a slightly stronger assumption that the gradient of $f$ is bounded. Applications to the study of the geometry and topology of gradient Ricci solitons are also considered. Among other things, it is shown that the volume of a noncompact shrinking Ricci soliton must be of at least linear growth. It is also shown that a nontrivial expanding Ricci soliton must be connected at infinity provided its scalar curvature satisfies a suitable lower bound.

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