Riemannian Geometry
In Riemannian geometry it is a traditional name for a number of theorems that compare various metrics and provide various estimates in Riemannian geometry.
- Rauch comparison theorem relates the sectional curvature of a Riemannian manifold to the rate at which its geodesics spread apart.
- Toponogov's theorem
- Myers's theorem
- Hessian comparison theorem
- Laplacian comparison theorem
- Morse–Schoenberg comparison theorem
- Berger comparison theorem, Rauch–Berger comparison theorem, M. Berger, "An Extension of Rauch's Metric Comparison Theorem and some Applications", llinois J. Math., vol. 6 (1962) 700–712
- Berger–Kazdan comparison theorem
- Warner comparison theorem for lengths of N-Jacobi fields (N being a submanifold of a complete Riemannian manifold) F.W. Warner, "Extensions of the Rauch Comparison Theorem to Submanifolds" (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., vol. 122, 1966, pp. 341–356).
- Bishop–Gromov inequality, conditional on a lower bound for the Ricci curvatures (R.L. Bishop & R. Crittenden, Geometry of manifolds)
- Lichnerowicz comparison theorem
- Eigenvalue comparison theorem
- Cheng's eigenvalue comparison theorem
- See also: Comparison triangle
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