Comparison geometry for the Bakry-Emery Ricci tensor

G Wei, W Wylie - Journal of differential geometry, 2009 - projecteuclid.org
For Riemannian manifolds with a measure (M, g, e− f dvolg) we prove mean curvature and
volume comparison results when the∞-Bakry-Emery Ricci tensor is bounded from below …

Liouville theorems for symmetric diffusion operators on complete Riemannian manifolds

XD Li - Journal de mathématiques pures et appliquées, 2005 - Elsevier
Let L= Δ−∇ ϕ⋅∇ be a symmetric diffusion operator with an invariant measure μ (dx)= e− ϕ
(x) dx on a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold M. We give the optimal conditions …

On the classification of warped product Einstein metrics

C He, P Petersen, W Wylie - arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.5488, 2010 - arxiv.org
In this paper we take the perspective introduced by Case-Shu-Wei of studying warped
product Einstein metrics through the equation for the Ricci curvature of the base space. They …

Sharp isoperimetric inequalities and model spaces for the curvature-dimension-diameter condition

E Milman - Journal of the European Mathematical Society, 2015 - ems.press
We obtain new sharp isoperimetric inequalities on a Riemannian manifold equipped with a
probability measure, whose generalized Ricci curvature is bounded from below (possibly …

Two generalizations of Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem via Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature

F Fang, XD Li, Z Zhang - Annales de l'Institut Fourier, 2009 - numdam.org
Following Bakry-Émery [1], see also [17, 3, 15, 12], given a Riemannian manifold (M, g) and
a C2-smooth function φ, M is said to have nonnegative∞-dimensional Bakry-Émery Ricci …

Beyond traditional curvature-dimension I: new model spaces for isoperimetric and concentration inequalities in negative dimension

E Milman - Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2017 - ams.org
We study the isoperimetric, functional and concentration properties of $ n $-dimensional
weighted Riemannian manifolds satisfying the Curvature-Dimension condition, when the …

Extension of Reilly formula with applications to eigenvalue estimates for drifting Laplacians

L Ma, SH Du - Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, 2010 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Dans cette Note, nous étendons la formule de Reilly au cas des opérateurs Laplaciens avec
dérive, et l'appliquons à l'étude d'estimées de valeurs propres pour de tels opérateurs sur …

Poincaré and Brunn-Minkowski inequalities on the boundary of weighted Riemannian manifolds

AV Kolesnikov, E Milman - American Journal of Mathematics, 2018 - muse.jhu.edu
We study a Riemannian manifold equipped with a density which satisfies the Bakry-\'Emery
Curvature-Dimension condition (combining a lower bound on its generalized Ricci curvature …

Perelman's entropy formula for the Witten Laplacian on Riemannian manifolds via Bakry–Emery Ricci curvature

XD Li - Mathematische Annalen, 2012 - Springer
In this paper, we study Perelman's\mathcal W-entropy formula for the heat equation
associated with the Witten Laplacian on complete Riemannian manifolds via the Bakry …

Mass transport and variants of the logarithmic Sobolev inequality

F Barthe, AV Kolesnikov - Journal of Geometric Analysis, 2008 - Springer
We develop the optimal transportation approach to modified log-Sobolev inequalities and to
isoperimetric inequalities. Various sufficient conditions for such inequalities are given. Some …