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On the finiteness of the fundamental group of a compact shrinking Ricci soliton

Zhenlei Zhang (2007)

Colloquium Mathematicae

Myers's classical theorem says that a compact Riemannian manifold with positive Ricci curvature has finite fundamental group. Using Ambrose's compactness criterion or J. Lott's results, M. Fernández-López and E. García-Río showed that the finiteness of the fundamental group remains valid for a compact shrinking Ricci soliton. We give a self-contained proof of this fact by estimating the lengths of shortest geodesic loops in each homotopy class.

On the Finsler geometry of the Heisenberg group H 2 n + 1 and its extension

Mehri Nasehi (2021)

Archivum Mathematicum

We first classify left invariant Douglas ( α , β ) -metrics on the Heisenberg group H 2 n + 1 of dimension 2 n + 1 and its extension i.e., oscillator group. Then we explicitly give the flag curvature formulas and geodesic vectors for these spaces, when equipped with these metrics. We also explicitly obtain S -curvature formulas of left invariant Randers metrics of Douglas type on these spaces and obtain a comparison on geometry of these spaces, when equipped with left invariant Douglas ( α , β ) -metrics. More exactly, we show...

On the first eigenvalue of spacelike hypersurfaces in Lorentzian space

Bing Ye Wu (2006)

Archivum Mathematicum

In this paper we obtain a lower bound for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of complete spacelike hypersurfaces in Lorentzian space in terms of mean curvature and the square length of the second fundamental form. This estimate is sharp for totally umbilical hyperbolic spaces in Lorentzian space. We also get a sufficient condition for spacelike hypersurface to have zero first eigenvalue.

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