Volume growth on manifolds with more than one end

Abstract: For an open manifold $M$ and a function $v$ with bounded growth of derivative, there exists a Riemannian metric of bounded geometry on $M$ such that the volume growth function lies in the same growth class as $v$. This was proved by R. Grimaldi and P. Pansu with the proof focusing on the case of manifolds with a single end. We prove this in the case of manifolds with multiple ends and call the constructed metrics Grimaldi-Pansu metrics. We give uniform bounds for the volume growth function of these metrics in terms of the given bgd-function in the case of a certain class of manifolds which can be written as connected sums of a finite collection of closed and compact manifolds. We study the volume doubling condition and the Relatively Connected Annulus (R.C.A.) property of the Grimaldi-Pansu metrics, which play an important role in studying geometric analysis on manifolds with finitely many ends.