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On measure contraction property without Ricci curvature lower bound

Differential Geometry 2014-12-16 v1

Abstract

Measure contraction properties MCP(K,N)MCP(K,N) are synthetic Ricci curvature lower bounds for metric measure spaces which do not necessarily have smooth structures. It is known that if a Riemannian manifold has dimension NN, then MCP(K,N)MCP(K,N) is equivalent to Ricci curvature bounded below by KK. On the other hand, it was observed in \cite{Ri} that there is a family of left invariant metrics on the three dimensional Heisenberg group for which the Ricci curvature is not bounded below. Though this family of metric spaces equipped with the Harr measure satisfy MCP(0,5)MCP(0,5). In this paper, we give sufficient conditions for a 2n+12n+1 dimensional weakly Sasakian manifold to satisfy MCP(0,2n+3)MCP(0,2n+3). This extends the above mentioned result on the Heisenberg group in \cite{Ri}.

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@article{arxiv.1412.4345,
  title  = {On measure contraction property without Ricci curvature lower bound},
  author = {Paul W. Y. Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.4345},
  year   = {2014}
}

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