Volume growth of 3-manifolds with scalar curvature lower bounds
Otis Chodosh, Chao Li, Douglas Stryker
Abstract
We give a new proof of a recent result of Munteanu–Wang relating scalar curvature to volume growth on a <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="3"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mn>3</mml:mn> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">3</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> -manifold with non-negative Ricci curvature. Our proof relies on the theory of <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="mu"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi> μ </mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mu</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> -bubbles introduced by Gromov [Geom. Funct. Anal. 28 (2018), pp. 645–726] as well as the almost splitting theorem due to Cheeger–Colding [Ann. of Math. (2) 144 (1996), pp. 189–237].