Rigidity of weighted manifolds via classification results for semilinear equations
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| author | Ciraolo, Giulio Farina, Alberto Petitt, Troy |
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| contents | We study model semilinear equations on complete and non-compact weighted Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature. Our main goal is to classify positive solutions of the equation at the Sobolev-critical exponent, and furthermore to prove that the existence of such solutions implies rigidity of the manifold and triviality of the weight.
This is possible when the weighted manifold has non-negative finite dimensional Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature, and even under the weaker condition of non-negative infinite dimensional Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature, up to imposing some additional conditions in the latter case. To exhibit the sharpness of these additional conditions, we construct a non-trivial positive solution of the critical problem on a weighted manifold with positive infinite dimensional curvature.
We also obtain a corresponding rigidity result for solutions of the Liouville equation on weighted Riemannian surfaces. Finally, we prove some non-existence theorems when the nonlinearity is sub-critical or simply under certain volume growth conditions. In particular, the latter rules out all positive solutions on shrinking gradient Ricci solitons. |
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| spellingShingle | Rigidity of weighted manifolds via classification results for semilinear equations Ciraolo, Giulio Farina, Alberto Petitt, Troy Analysis of PDEs Differential Geometry We study model semilinear equations on complete and non-compact weighted Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature. Our main goal is to classify positive solutions of the equation at the Sobolev-critical exponent, and furthermore to prove that the existence of such solutions implies rigidity of the manifold and triviality of the weight. This is possible when the weighted manifold has non-negative finite dimensional Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature, and even under the weaker condition of non-negative infinite dimensional Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature, up to imposing some additional conditions in the latter case. To exhibit the sharpness of these additional conditions, we construct a non-trivial positive solution of the critical problem on a weighted manifold with positive infinite dimensional curvature. We also obtain a corresponding rigidity result for solutions of the Liouville equation on weighted Riemannian surfaces. Finally, we prove some non-existence theorems when the nonlinearity is sub-critical or simply under certain volume growth conditions. In particular, the latter rules out all positive solutions on shrinking gradient Ricci solitons. |
| title | Rigidity of weighted manifolds via classification results for semilinear equations |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs Differential Geometry |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13181 |