O Teorema de Comparação de Volume de Bishop-Gromov

Abstract

In this dissertation, we use the Laplacian comparison theorem to prove the comparison of volume Bishop-Gromov s theorem, which assures that if the Ricci curvatures of a complete Riemannian manifold are larger than or equal to (n - 1)k, the volume of a ball with center in p and radius R is smaller than or equal to the volume of a geodesic ball with radius R in the space form of sectional constant curvature k, for all p 2 M and R > 0, where k 2 R. Moreover, equality occurs if all sectional curvature throughout geodesics connecting p and x, for plans which contain the radial vector, is constant and equal to k.