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Almost-Riemannian manifolds do not satisfy the $\mathsf{CD}$ condition

Differential Geometry 2023-09-07 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

The Lott-Sturm-Villani curvature-dimension condition CD(K,N)\mathsf{CD}(K,N) provides a synthetic notion for a metric-measure space to have curvature bounded from below by KK and dimension bounded from above by NN. It was proved by Juillet that a large class of \sr manifolds do not satisfy the CD(K,N)\mathsf{CD}(K,N) condition, for any KRK\in\mathbb R and N(1,)N\in(1,\infty). However, his result does not cover the case of almost-Riemannian manifolds. In this paper, we address the problem of disproving the CD\mathsf{CD} condition in this setting, providing a new strategy which allows us to contradict the 11-dimensional version of the CD\mathsf{CD} condition. In particular, we prove that 22-dimensional almost-Riemannian manifolds and strongly regular almost-Riemannian manifolds do not satisfy the CD(K,N)\mathsf{CD}(K,N) condition for any KRK\in\mathbb R and N(1,)N\in(1,\infty).

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@article{arxiv.2202.08775,
  title  = {Almost-Riemannian manifolds do not satisfy the $\mathsf{CD}$ condition},
  author = {Mattia Magnabosco and Tommaso Rossi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.08775},
  year   = {2023}
}

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26 pages. v2: final version published in Calc. Var & PDE

R2 v1 2026-06-24T09:43:03.266Z