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$(K,N)$-convexity and the curvature-dimension condition for negative $N$

Differential Geometry 2017-01-18 v3 Analysis of PDEs Metric Geometry

Abstract

We extend the range of NN to negative values in the (K,N)(K,N)-convexity (in the sense of Erbar--Kuwada--Sturm), the weighted Ricci curvature RicNRic_N and the curvature-dimension condition CD(K,N)CD(K,N). We generalize a number of results in the case of N>0N>0 to this setting, including Bochner's inequality, the Brunn--Minkowski inequality and the equivalence between RicNKRic_N \ge K and CD(K,N)CD(K,N). We also show an expansion bound for gradient flows of Lipschitz (K,N)(K,N)-convex functions.

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@article{arxiv.1310.7993,
  title  = {$(K,N)$-convexity and the curvature-dimension condition for negative $N$},
  author = {Shin-ichi Ohta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.7993},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

29 pages; Minor corrections, to appear in J. Geom. Anal