Weighted Ricci curvature in Riemann-Finsler geometry

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Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University, 402 N Blackford Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA

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Ricci curvature is one of the important geometric quantities in Riemann-Finsler geometry. Together with the $S$-curvature, one can define a weighted Ricci curvature for a pair of Finsler metric and a volume form on a manifold. One can build up a bridge from Riemannian geometry to Finsler geometry via geodesic fields. Then one can estimate the Laplacian of a distance function and the mean curvature of a metric sphere under a lower weighted Ricci curvature by applying the results in the Riemannian setting. These estimates also give rise to a volume comparison of Bishop-Gromov type for Finsler metric measure manifolds.

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AUT Journal of Mathematics and Computing
Volume 2, Issue 2
September 2021
Pages 117-136

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