The volume growth conjecture for Ricci-nonnegative manifolds

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Let (Mn,g)(M^n,g) be a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold, let BR(p)B_R(p) denote the geodesic ball of radius RR centered at pMp\in M, and define

Θn2,():=lim supRvol(BR(p))Rn2.\Theta^{n-2,*}(\infty):=\limsup_{R\to\infty}\frac{\operatorname{vol}(B_R(p))}{R^{n-2}}.

Write Ric\operatorname{Ric} and Sc\operatorname{Sc} for the Ricci and scalar curvatures. The volume growth conjecture. There exists a constant C(n)C(n) such that, if Ric0\operatorname{Ric}\geqslant 0 and Sc2\operatorname{Sc}\geqslant 2, then

Θn2,()C(n).\Theta^{n-2,*}(\infty)\leqslant C(n).

This is the asymptotic version of Gromov's volume bound question and concerns volume growth at infinity under nonnegative Ricci curvature and positive scalar curvature. The source makes the conjecture explicit by reference to earlier work, while the supplied text gives no resolution.

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Jie Zhou and Jintian Zhu, “Optimal volume bound and volume growth for Ricci-nonnegative manifolds with positive Bi-Ricci curvature”, arXiv:2406.18343 (2024).

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