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Gilles Carron

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arXiv2014

A sphere theorem for three dimensional manifolds with integral pinched curvature

In a previous paper, we proved a number of optimal rigidity results for Riemannian manifolds of dimension greater than four whose curvature satisfy an integral pinching. In this article, we use the same integral Bochner technique to extend the results in dimension three. Then, by using the classification of closed three-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and a few topological considerations, we deduce optimal sphere theorems for three-dimensional manifolds with integral pinched curvature.

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arXiv2013

The Yamabe problem on Dirichlet spaces

We continue our previous work studying critical exponent semilinear elliptic (and subelliptic) problems which generalize the classical Yamabe problem. In [3] the focus was on metric-measure spaces with an `almost smooth' structure, with stratified spaces furnishing the key examples. The criterion for solvability there is phrased in terms of a strict inequality of the global Yamabe invariant with a `local Yamabe invariant', which captures information about the local singular structure. All of this is generalized here to the setting of Dirichlet spaces which admit a Sobolev inequality and satisfy a few other mild hypotheses. Applications include a new approach to the nonspherical part of the CR Yamabe problem.

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arXiv2012

The Yamabe problem on stratified spaces

We introduce new invariants of a Riemannian singular space, the local Yamabe and Sobolev constants, and then go on to prove a general version of the Yamabe theorem under that the global Yamabe invariant of the space is strictly less than one or the other of these local invariants. This rests on a small number of structural assumptions about the space and of the behavior of the scalar curvature function on its smooth locus. The second half of this paper shows how this result applies in the category of smoothly stratified pseudomanifolds, and we also prove sharp regularity for the solutions on these spaces. This sharpens and generalizes the results of Akutagawa and Botvinnik \cite{AB} on the Yamabe problem on spaces with isolated conic singularities.

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arXiv2012

Index theorems on manifolds with straight ends

We study Fredholm properties and index formulas for Dirac operators over complete Riemannian manifolds with straight ends. An important class of examples of such manifolds are complete Riemannian manifolds with pinched negative sectional curvature and finite volume.

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arXiv2012

Optimal Integral Pinching Results

In this article, we generalize the classical Bochner-Weitzenböck theorem for manifolds satisfying an integral pinching on the curvature. We obtain the vanishing of Betti numbers under integral pinching assumptions on the curvature, and characterize the equality case. In particular, we reprove and extend to higher degrees and higher dimensions a number of integral pinching results obtained by M. Gursky for four-dimensional closed manifolds.

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arXiv2011

Inégalité de Sobolev et volume asymptotique

A result of M. Ledoux is that a complete Riemannian manifold with non negative Ricci curvature satisfying the Euclidean Sobolev inequality is the Euclidean space. We present a shortcut of the proof. We also give a refinement of a result of B-L. Chen et X-P. Zhu about locally conformally flat manifolds with non negative Ricci curvature. Eventually, we discuss Ledoux's result when the hypothesis on the Ricci curvature is weakened on a hypothesis on the scalar curvature.

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arXiv2009

Rigidity and $L^2$ cohomology of hyperbolic manifolds

When $X=Γ\backslash \H^n$ is a real hyperbolic manifold, it is already known that if the critical exponent is small enough then some cohomology spaces and some spaces of $L^2$ harmonic forms vanish. In this paper, we show rigidity results in the borderline case of these vanishing results.

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arXiv2008

On the QALE geometry of Nakajima's metric

We show that on Hilbert scheme of $n$ points on $\C^2$, the hyperkähler metric construsted by H. Nakajima via hyperkähler reduction is the Quasi-Asymptotically Locally Euclidean (QALE in short) metric constructed by D. Joyce.

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arXiv2008

Gaps in the differential forms spectrum on cyclic coverings

We are interested in the spectrum of the Hodge-de Rham operator on a cyclic covering $X$ over a compact manifold $M$ of dimension $n+1$. Let $Σ$ be a hypersurface in $M$ which does not disconnect $M$ and such that $M-Σ$ is a fundamental domain of the covering. If the cohomology group $H^{n/2 (Σ)$ is trivial, we can construct for each $N \in \N$ a metric $g=g_N$ on $M$, such that the Hodge-de Rham operator on the covering $(X,g)$ has at least $N$ gaps in its (essential) spectrum. If $H^{n/2}(Σ) \ne 0$, the same statement holds true for the Hodge-de Rham operators on $p$-forms provided $p \notin \{n/2,n/2+1\}$.

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arXiv2006

Riesz transforms on connected sums

We investigate the boundness of the Riesz transform on $L^p$ for connected sum of manifolds where the Riesz transform is bounded on $L^p$.

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arXiv2005

Cohomologie $L^2$ des variétés QALE

We give a topological interpretation of the space of $L^2$ harmonis forms of some QALE manifolds introduced by D. Joyce. We introduce a analytical criterium which make possible the used of Mayer-Vietoris sequence.

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arXiv2005

A counter example to the Bueler's conjecture

We give a counter example to a conjecture of E. Bueler stating the equality between the DeRham cohomology of complete Riemannian manifold and a weighted $L^2$ cohomology where the weight is the heat kernel.

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arXiv2005

On the differential form spectrum of hyperbolic manifolds

We give a lower bound for the bottom of the $L^2$ differential form spectrum on hyperbolic manifolds, generalizing thus a well-known result due to Sullivan and Corlette in the function case. Our method is based on the study of the resolvent associated with the Hodge-de Rham Laplacian and leads to applications for the (co)homology and topology of certain classes of hyperbolic manifolds.

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arXiv2004

Riesz transform and $L^p$ cohomology for manifolds with Euclidean ends

Let $M$ be a smooth Riemannian manifold which is the union of a compact part and a finite number of Euclidean ends, $\RR^n \setminus B(0,R)$ for some $R > 0$, each of which carries the standard metric. Our main result is that the Riesz transform on $M$ is bounded from $L^p(M) \to L^p(M; T^*M)$ for $1 < p < n$ and unbounded for $p \geq n$ if there is more than one end. It follows from known results that in such a case the Riesz transform on $M$ is bounded for $1 < p \leq 2$ and unbounded for $p > n$; the result is new for $2 < p \leq n$. We also give some heat kernel estimates on such manifolds. We then consider the implications of boundedness of the Riesz transform in $L^p$ for some $p > 2$ for a more general class of manifolds. Assume that $M$ is a $n$-dimensional complete manifold satisfying the Nash inequality and with an $O(r^n)$ upper bound on the volume growth of geodesic balls. We show that boundedness of the Riesz transform on $L^p$ for some $p > 2$ implies a Hodge-de Rham interpretation of the $L^p$ cohomology in degree 1, and that the map from $L^2$ to $L^p$ cohomology in this degree is injective.

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