Rigidity of mean convex subsets in non-negatively curved RCD spaces and stability of mean curvature bounds

Abstract

We prove splitting theorems for mean convex open subsets in RCD (Riemannian curvature-dimension) spaces that extend results by Kasue, Croke and Kleiner for Riemannian manifolds with boundary to a non-smooth setting. A corollary is for instance Frankel's theorem. Then, we prove that our notion of mean curvature bounded from below for the boundary of an open subset is stable w.r.t. to uniform convergence of the corresponding boundary distance function. We apply this to prove almost rigidity theorems for uniform domains whose boundary has a lower mean curvature bound.

arXiv comment37 pages, no figures, corrected typos, Remark 1.1.1 and 1.4.1 added, comments are welcome