arXiv:2611.08751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We provide an elementary proof of Hersch's inequality and Cheng's theorem, both characterizing the sphere. We revisit these classical results in connection with the geodesic monotonicity of heat kernels on two-dimensional spheres, which provides a third characterization.
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