Ricci curvature for metric-measure spaces via optimal transport

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2009.169.903zbMATH Open1178.53038arXivmath/0412127OpenAlexW1968781546WikidataQ56813466 ScholiaQ56813466MaRDI QIDQ2389152FDOQ2389152

Authors: John Lott, Cédric Villani 

Publication date: 14 July 2009

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We define a notion of a measured length space X having nonnegative N-Ricci curvature, for N finite, or having infinity-Ricci curvature bounded below by K, for K a real number. The definitions are in terms of the displacement convexity of certain functions on the associated Wasserstein space P_2(X) of probability measures. We show that these properties are preserved under measured Gromov-Hausdorff limits. We give geometric and analytic consequences.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412127

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zbMATH Keywords

optimal transportWasserstein space[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=Poincar%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD+inequality&go=Go Poincar�� inequality]Ricci curvatureRiemannian manifolddisplacement convexitylength spacelogarithmic Sobolev inequalityTalagrand inequalitymeasured Gromov-Hausdorff convergenceBishop-Gromov inequalitydisplacement interpolationAleksandrov spaceWasserstein geodesic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convergence of probability measures (60B10) Probability measures on topological spaces (60B05) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Integration on manifolds; measures on manifolds (58C35)

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