Enhanced Bishop-Gromov Theorem
| Autor: | Brown, Adam R., Freedman, Michael H. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | The Bishop-Gromov theorem upperbounds the rate of growth of volume of geodesic balls in a space, in terms of the most negative component of the Ricci curvature. In this paper we prove a strengthening of the Bishop-Gromov bound for homogeneous spaces. Unlike the original Bishop-Gromov bound, our enhanced bound depends not only on the most negative component of the Ricci curvature, but on the full spectrum. As a further result, for finite-volume inhomogeneous spaces, we prove an upperbound on the average rate of growth of geodesics, averaged over all starting points; this bound is stronger than the one that follows from the Bishop-Gromov theorem. Our proof makes use of the Raychaudhuri equation, of the fact that geodesic flow conserves phase-space volume, and also of a tool we introduce for studying families of correlated Jacobi equations that we call "coefficient shuffling". Comment: 41 pages, 5 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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