Coarse Ricci curvature as a function on M M

DOI10.1007/S00025-017-0746-9MaRDI QIDQ681236zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antonio Aché, Micah Warren

Publication date 30 January 2018

Published in Results in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04166

zbMATH Keywords

discrete metric spacemetric geometrymetric measure spaceRicci curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Abstract: We use the framework used by Bakry and Emery in their work on logarithmic Sobolev inequalities to define a notion of coarse Ricci curvature on smooth metric measure spaces alternative to the notion proposed by Y. Ollivier. This function can be used to recover the Ricci tensor on smooth Riemannian manifolds by the formula ${\displaystyle }$ mathrm{Ric}(gamma^{prime}left( 0 ight) ,gamma^{prime}left( 0 ight) )=frac{1}{2}frac{d^{2}}{ds^{2}}mathrm{Ric}_{Delta_g}(x,gammaleft( s ight) )${\displaystyle }$ for any curve $gamma(s).$

Review text

The authors propose an alternative notion of the coarse Ricci curvature on smooth metric measure spaces. In contrary to \textit{K.-T. Sturm}'s case [Acta Math. 196, No. 1, 65--131 (2006; Zbl 1105.53035); ibid. 196, No. 1, 133--177 (2006; Zbl 1106.53032)] which works in the case of length spaces and \textit{Y. Ollivier}'s idea [Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 57, 343--381 (2010; Zbl 1204.53035)] based on Markov processes, here the authors consider the ``iterated Carré du Champ introduced by \textit{D. Bakry} and \textit{M. Émery} [Lect. Notes Math. 1123, 177--206 (1985; Zbl 0561.60080)]. However, the main results are proved only for (smooth) Riemannian manifolds.

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