Abstract
We prove Obata’s rigidity theorem for metric measure spaces that satisfy a Riemannian curvaturedimension condition. Additionally,we show that a lower bound K for the generalizedHessian of a sufficiently regular function u holds if and only if u is K-convex. A corollary is also a rigidity result for higher order eigenvalues.
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