Some compactness theorems via m-Bakry–Émery and m-modified Ricci curvatures with negative m

Abstract

Stimulated by S. Ohta and W. Wylie, we establish some compactness theorems for complete Riemannian manifolds via m-Bakry–Émery and m-modified Ricci curvatures with negative m. Our results may be considered as generalizations of the classical compactness theorems via Ricci curvature due to S.B. Myers, W. Ambrose, G.J. Galloway, and J. Cheeger, M. Gromov, and M. Taylor, and relax some previous compactness criteria for complete Riemannian manifolds via m-Bakry–Émery and m-modified Ricci curvatures obtained when m is a positive constant or infinity.