A flow tangent to the Ricci flow via heat kernels and mass transport

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2013.09.007zbMATH Open1288.53059arXiv1208.5815OpenAlexW2072636463MaRDI QIDQ2445375FDOQ2445375

Authors: Nicola Gigli, Carlo Mantegazza 

Publication date: 14 April 2014

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a new relation between the short time behavior of the heat flow, the geometry of optimal transport and the Ricci flow. We also show how this relation can be used to define an evolution of metrics on non-smooth metric measure spaces with Ricci curvature bounded from below.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5815

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zbMATH Keywords

optimal transportRicci flowheat flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integration on manifolds; measures on manifolds (58C35)

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