RESEARCH ARTICLE

Comparison theorems on Finsler manifolds with weighted Ricci curvature bounded below

  • Songting YIN
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  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Tongling University, Tongling 244000, China

Received date: 06 Feb 2017

Accepted date: 13 Feb 2018

Published date: 28 Mar 2018

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2018 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature

Abstract

We obtain the Laplacian comparison theorem and the Bishop-Gromov comparison theorem on a Finsler manifold with the weighted Ricci curvature Ric∞ bounded below. As applications, we prove that if the weighted Ricci curvature Ric∞ is bounded below by a positive number, then the manifold must have finite fundamental group, and must be compact if the distortion is also bounded. Moreover, we give the Calabi-Yau linear volume growth theorem on a Finsler manifold with nonnegative weighted Ricci curvature.

Cite this article

Songting YIN . Comparison theorems on Finsler manifolds with weighted Ricci curvature bounded below[J]. Frontiers of Mathematics in China, 2018 , 13(2) : 435 -448 . DOI: 10.1007/s11464-018-0692-1

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