{ "id": "1211.6863", "version": "v2", "published": "2012-11-29T10:08:30.000Z", "updated": "2013-01-24T08:05:12.000Z", "title": "Functions with bounded variation on a class of Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature unbounded from below", "authors": [ "Batu Güneysu", "Diego Pallara" ], "comment": "26 pages; BV-characterization of Sobolev functions added", "categories": [ "math.DG", "math.MG", "math.PR" ], "abstract": "After establishing some new global facts (like a measure theoretic structure theorem and approximation results) about complex-valued functions with bounded variation on arbitrary noncompact Riemannian manifolds, we extend results of Miranda/the second author/Paronetto/Preunkert and of Carbonaro/Mauceri on the heat semigroup characterization of the variation of L^1-functions to a class of Riemannian manifolds with possibly unbounded from below Ricci curvature.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2013-01-24T08:05:12.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "ricci curvature", "bounded variation", "measure theoretic structure theorem", "arbitrary noncompact riemannian manifolds", "heat semigroup characterization" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 26, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1211.6863G" } } }