We give a new proof of Gromovs theorem that any finitely generated group of polynomial growth has a finite index nilpotent subgroup. Unlike the original proof, it does not rely on the Montgomery-Zippin-Yamabe structure theory of locally compact groups.
Let $M$ be an $n$-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature $ge n-1$. In cite{colding1, colding2}, Tobias Colding, by developing some new techniques, proved that the following three condtions: 1) $d_{GH}(M, S^n)to 0$; 2) the volum
e of $M$ ${text{Vol}}(M)to{text{Vol}}(S^n)$; 3) the radius of $M$ ${text{rad}}(M)topi$ are equivalent. In cite{peter}, Peter Petersen, by developing a different technique, gave the 4-th equivalent condition, namely he proved that the $n+1$-th eigenvalue of $M$ $lambda_{n+1}(M)to n$ is also equivalent to the radius of $M$ ${text{rad}}(M)topi$, and hence the other two. In this note, we give a new proof of Petersens theorem by utilizing Coldings techniques.
In this paper, we give a classification of all compact Hermitian manifolds with flat Bismut connection. We show that the torsion tensor of such a manifold must be parallel, thus the universal cover of such a manifold is a Lie group equipped with a bi
-invariant metric and a compatible left invariant complex structure. In particular, isosceles Hopf surfaces are the only Bismut flat compact non-Kahler surfaces, while central Calabi-Eckmann threefolds are the only simply-connected compact Bismut flat threefolds.
In this paper, we use the canonical connection instead of Levi-Civita connection to study the smooth maps between almost Hermitian manifolds, especially, the pseudoholomorphic ones. By using the Bochner formulas, we obtian the $C^2$-estimate of canon
ical second fundamental form, Liouville type theorems of pseudoholomorphic maps, pseudoholomorphicity of pluriharmonic maps, and Simons integral inequality of pseudoholomorphic isometric immersion.
We establish a new criterion for a compatible almost complex structure on a symplectic four-manifold to be integrable and hence Kahler. Our main theorem shows that the existence of three linearly independent closed J-anti-invariant two-forms implies
the integrability of the almost complex structure. This proves the conjecture of Draghici-Li-Zhang in the almost-Kahler case