Diff. Geom. Seminar: Paul Lee (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong), 'Ricci curvature type lower bounds for sub-Riemannian structures on Sasakian manifolds'

Event Date: 

Friday, November 15, 2013 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Event Location: 

  • 6635 South Hall

Event Contact: 

Guofang Wei

Email: wei@math.ucsb.edu

In this talk, we introduce a type of Ricci curvature lower bound for a natural sub-Riemannian structure on Sasakian manifolds. We will show that analogues of measure contraction properties, Bishop volume comparison theorem, and Laplacian comparison theorem hold under this lower bound.