A note on the splitting theorem for the weighted measure

In this paper, we study complete manifolds equipped with smooth measures whose spectrum of the weighted Laplacian has an optimal positive lower bound and the m-dimensional Bakry–Émery Ricci curvature is bounded from below by some negative constant. In particular, we prove a splitting type theorem for complete smooth measure manifolds that have a finite-weighted volume end. This result is regarded as a study of the equality case of an author’s theorem (Wu, J Math Anal Appl 361:10–18, 2010).