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Tohoku Mathematical Journal
2021
December
SECOND SERIES VOL. 73, NO. 4
Tohoku Math. J.
73 (2021), 539-564
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Title
REMARKS ABOUT SYNTHETIC UPPER RICCI BOUNDS FOR METRIC MEASURE SPACES
Author
Karl-Theodor Sturm
(Received March 23, 2020, revised July 13, 2020) |
Abstract.
We discuss various characterizations of synthetic upper Ricci bounds for metric measure spaces in terms of heat flow, entropy and optimal transport. In particular, we present a characterization in terms of semiconcavity of the entropy along certain Wasserstein geodesics which is stable under convergence of mm-spaces. And we prove that a related characterization is equivalent to an asymptotic lower bound on the growth of the Wasserstein distance between heat flows. For weighted Riemannian manifolds, the crucial result will be a precise uniform two-sided bound for
\begin{eqnarray*}\frac{d}{dt}\Big|_{t=0}W_2\big(\hat P_t\delta_x,\hat P_t\delta_y\big)\end{eqnarray*}
in terms of the mean value of the Bakry-Émery Ricci tensor ${\mathrm{Ric}}+{\mathrm{Hess}} f$ along the minimizing geodesic from $x$ to $y$ and an explicit correction term depending on the bound for the curvature along this curve.
Mathematics Subject Classification.
Primary 53C23; Secondary 49Q20.
Key words and phrases.
Synthetic Ricci bounds, metric measure space, upper Ricci bounds, singular spaces.
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