Remarks on curvature in the transportation metric
Abstract
According to a classical result of E.~Calabi any hyperbolic affine hypersphere endowed with its natural Hessian metric has a non-positive Ricci tensor. The affine hyperspheres can be described as the level sets of solutions to the "hyperbolic" toric K\"ahler-Einstein equation on proper convex cones. We prove a generalization of this theorem by showing that for every solving this equation on a proper convex domain the corresponding metric measure space has a non-positive Bakry-{\'E}mery tensor. Modifying the Calabi computations we obtain this result by applying the tensorial maximum principle to the weighted Laplacian of the Bakry-{\'E}mery tensor. Our computations are carried out in a generalized framework adapted to the optimal transportation problem for arbitrary target and source measures. For the optimal transportation of the log-concave probability measures we prove a third-order uniform dimension-free apriori estimate in the spirit of the second-order Caffarelli contraction theorem, which has numerous applications in probability theory.
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@article{arxiv.1604.04165,
title = {Remarks on curvature in the transportation metric},
author = {Bo'az Klartag and Alexander Kolesnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.04165},
year = {2017}
}
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18 pages; minor changes