A perturbation result for the Riesz transform

Abstract

We show a perturbation result for the boundedness of the Riesz transform : if $M$ and $M_0$ are complete Riemannian manifolds satisfying a Sobolev inequality of dimension $n$, which are isometric outside a compact set, and if the Riesz transform on $M_0$ is bounded on $L^q$, then for all $\frac{n}{n-2}, the Riesz transform on $M$ is bounded on $L^p$ provided that $M$ is p-hyperbolic OR $M$ has only one end.