Synthetic versus distributional lower Ricci curvature bounds

MaRDI QIDQ6404364zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael Kunzinger, Michael Oberguggenberger, James A. Vickers

Publication date 8 July 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimal transportation (49Q22) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Distributions and generalized functions on nonlinear spaces (46T30)

Abstract: We compare two standard approaches to defining lower Ricci curvature bounds for Riemannian metrics of regularity below $C^2$. These are, on the one hand, the synthetic definition via weak displacement convexity of entropy functionals in the framework of optimal transport, and the distributional one based on non-negativity of the Ricci-tensor in the sense of Schwartz. It turns out that distributional bounds imply entropy bounds for metrics of class $C^1$ and that the converse holds for $C^{1,1}$-metrics under an additional convergence condition on regularisations of the metric.

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