%0 Journal Article %J Canadian Mathematical Bulletin %D 2019 %T A Note About the Strong Maximum Principle on RCD Spaces %A Nicola Gigli %A Chiara Rigoni %X
We give a direct proof of the strong maximum principle on finite dimensional RCD spaces based on the Laplacian comparison of the squared distance.
%B Canadian Mathematical Bulletin %I Canadian Mathematical Society %V 62 %P 259–266 %G eng %R 10.4153/CMB-2018-022-9 %0 Journal Article %J Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations %D 2018 %T Recognizing the flat torus among RCD*(0,N) spaces via the study of the first cohomology group %A Nicola Gigli %A Chiara Rigoni %XWe prove that if the dimension of the first cohomology group of a $\mathsf{RCD}^\star (0,N)$ space is $N$, then the space is a flat torus. This generalizes a classical result due to Bochner to the non-smooth setting and also provides a first example where the study of the cohomology groups in such synthetic framework leads to geometric consequences.
%B Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations %V 57 %P 104 %8 Jun %G eng %U https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-018-1377-z %R 10.1007/s00526-018-1377-z