ON THE BEHAVIOR OF L² HARMONIC FORMS ON COMPLETE MANIFOLDS AT INFINITY AND ITS APPLICATIONS

We investigate the behavior of $L^2$ harmonic one forms on complete manifolds and as an application, we show the space of $L^2$harmonic one forms on a complete Riemannian manifold of nonnegative Ricci curvature outside a compact set with bounded $n/2$-norm of Ricci curvature satisfying the Sobolev inequality is finite dimensional.