This article introduces the concept of geodesic mappings of manifolds with idempotent pseudo-connections. The basic equations of canonical geodesic mappings of manifolds with completely idempotent pseudo-connectivity and semi-Riemannian manifolds with a degenerate metric are obtained. It is proved that semi-Riemannian manifolds admitting concircular fields admit completely canonical geodesic mappings and form a closed class with respect to these mappings.
<abstract><p>We derive a matrix version of Li & Yau–type estimates for positive solutions of semilinear heat equations on Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvatures and parallel Ricci tensor, similarly to what R. Hamilton did in <sup>[<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="b5">5</xref>]</sup> for the standard heat equation. We then apply these estimates to obtain some Harnack–type inequalities, which give local bounds on the solutions in terms of the geometric quantities involved.</p></abstract>
AbstractWe prove the macroscopic cousins of three conjectures: (1) a conjectural bound of the simplicial volume of a Riemannian manifold in the presence of a lower scalar curvature bound, (2) the conjecture that rationally essential manifolds do not admit metrics of positive scalar curvature, (3) a conjectural bound of $$\ell ^2$$
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-Betti numbers of aspherical Riemannian manifolds in the presence of a lower scalar curvature bound. The macroscopic cousin is the statement one obtains by replacing a lower scalar curvature bound by an upper bound on the volumes of 1-balls in the universal cover.
It is shown that a complete Riemannian manifold with boundary is uniquely determined, up to isometry, by its distance difference representation on the boundary. Unlike previously known results, no restrictions on the boundary are imposed.
Geodesic Mappings of Semi-Riemannian Manifolds with a Degenerate Metric