Abstract. Given a family of biholomorphisms φt on a noncompact complex manifold M , we provide conditions, on φt, under which M is biholomorphic to C. As an application, we generalize previous results in [1]. We prove that if (M, g) is a complete non-compact gradient Kähler-Ricci soliton with potential function f which is either steady with positive Ricci curvature so that the scalar curvature ...

In the present paper we have studied an N(k)-quasi Einstein manifold satisfying R(ξ, X).P̃ , where P̃ is the pseudo-projective curvature tensor. Among others, it is shown that if quasi-Einstein manifold with constant associated scalars is Ricci symmetric then the generator of the manifold is a Killing vector field. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 53C25

We prove compactness of solutions of a fully nonlinear Yamabe problem satisfying a lower Ricci curvature bound, when the manifold is not conformally diffeomorphic to the standard sphere. This allows us to prove the existence of solutions when the associated cone Γ satisfies μ+Γ ≤ 1, which includes the σk−Yamabe problem for k not smaller than half of the dimension of the manifold.

When Einstein was thinking about the theory of general relativity based on the elimination of especial relativity constraints (especially the geometric relationship of space and time), he understood the first limitation of especial relativity is ignoring changes over time. Because in especial relativity, only the curvature of the space was considered. Therefore, tensor calculations should be to...

In this paper we will give a rigorous proof of the lower bound for the scalar curvature of the standard solution of the Ricci flow conjectured by G. Perelman. We will prove that the scalar curvature R of the standard solution satisfies R(x, t) ≥ C0/(1−t) ∀x ∈ R , 0 ≤ t < 1, for some constant C0 > 0. Recently there is a lot of study of Ricci flow on manifolds by R. Hamilton [H1-6], S.Y. Hsu [Hs1...

We prove the following results: (i) A Sasakian metric as a nontrivial Ricci soliton is null η-Einstein, and expanding. Such a characterization permits to identify the Sasakian metric on the Heisenberg group H as an explicit example of (non-trivial) Ricci soliton of such type. (ii) If an ηEinstein contact metric manifold M has a vector field V leaving the structure tensor and the scalar curvatur...

We derive the entropy formula for the linear heat equation on general Riemannian manifolds and prove that it is monotone non-increasing on manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. As applications, we study the relation between the value of entropy and the volume of balls of various scales. The results are simpler version, without Ricci flow, of Perelman’s recent results on volume non-collaps...

Among the eigenvalue problems of the Laplacian, the biharmonic operator eigenvalue problems are interesting projects because these problems root in physics and geometric analysis. The buckling problem is one of the most important problems in physics, and many studies have been done by the researchers about the solution and the estimate of its eigenvalue. In this paper, first, we obtain the evol...

This text is a presentation of the general context and results of [Oll07] and the preprint [Oll-a], with comments on related work. The goal is to present a notion of Ricci curvature valid on arbitrary metric spaces, such as graphs, and to generalize a series of classical theorems in positive Ricci curvature, such as spectral gap estimates, concentration of measure or log-Sobolev inequalities. T...

Abstract. We give sufficient conditions for a measured length space (X, d, ν) to admit local and global Poincaré inequalities. We first introduce a condition DM on (X, d, ν), defined in terms of transport of measures. We show that DM , together with a doubling condition on ν, implies a scale-invariant local Poincaré inequality. We show that if (X, d, ν) has nonnegative N -Ricci curvature and ha...