%0 Journal Article %T Heat content, torsional rigidity and generalized Hardy inequalities for complete Riemannian manifolds %A Michiel van den Berg %A Peter B. Gilkey %J Mathematics %D 2003 %I arXiv %X We obtain upper bounds on the heat content and on the torsional rigidity of a complete Riemannian manifold M, assuming a generalized Hardy inequality for the Dirichlet Laplacian on M. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0302255v1