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Each sub-Riemannian geometry with bracket generating distribution enjoys a background structure determined by the distribution itself. At the same time, those geometries with constant sub-Riemannian symbols determine a unique Cartan…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-05 D. Alekseevsky , A. Medvedev , J. Slovak

For compact Riemannian manifolds with convex boundary, B.White proved the following alternative: Either there is an isoperimetric inequality for minimal hypersurfaces or there exists a closed minimal hypersurface, possibly with a small…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-19 Victor Bangert , Nena Roettgen

We aim at reviewing and extending a number of recent results addressing stability of certain geometric and analytic estimates in the Riemannian approximation of subRiemannian structures. In particular we extend the recent work of the the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Luca Capogna , Giovanna Citti

Optimal transport and information geometry both study geometric structures on spaces of probability distributions. Optimal transport characterizes the cost-minimizing movement from one distribution to another, while information geometry…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Ting-Kam Leonard Wong , Jiaowen Yang

In this paper we study collapsing sequences M_{i}-> X of Riemannian manifolds with curvature bounded or bounded away from a controlled subset. We introduce a structure over X which in an appropriate sense is dual to the N-structure of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-26 Aaron Naber , Gang Tian

We prove several functional and geometric inequalities only assuming the linearity and a quantitative $\mathrm{L}^\infty$-to-Lipschitz smoothing of the heat semigroup in metric-measure spaces. Our results comprise a Buser inequality, a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Nicolò De Ponti , Giorgio Stefani

We study the radial part of sub-Riemannian Brownian motion in the context of totally geodesic foliations. It\^o's formula is proved for the radial processes associated to Riemannian distances approximating the Riemannian one. We deduce very…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-10 Fabrice Baudoin , Erlend Grong , Kazumasa Kuwada , Robert Neel , Anton Thalmaier

We prove that, on any sub-Riemannian manifold endowed with a positive smooth measure, the Bakry-\'Emery inequality for the corresponding sub-Laplacian implies the existence of enough Killing vector fields on the tangent cone to force the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Luca Rizzi , Giorgio Stefani

We study the regularity and branching of strictly abnormal minimizing geodesics in sub-Riemannian geometry. We construct examples of real-analytic sub-Riemannian manifolds admitting minimizing geodesics that lose regularity at an interior…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Tommaso Rossi , Alec Jacopo Almo Schiavoni Piazza , Alessandro Socionovo

We prove that a Riemannian submersion between smooth, compact, non-negatively curved Riemannian manifolds has to be smooth, resolving a conjecture by Berestovskii--Guijarro. We show that without any curvature assumption, the smoothness of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Alexander Lytchak , Burkhard Wilking

We prove comparison theorems for the horizontal Laplacian of the Riemannian distance in the context of Riemannian foliations with minimal leaves. This general framework generalizes previous works and allow us to consider the sub-Laplacian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Fabrice Baudoin

A Riemannian or pseudo-Riemannian (or conformal) structure is conformally Einstein if and only if there is a suitably generic parallel section of a certain vector bundle -- the so-called standard conformal tractor bundle. We show that this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. R. Gover

We introduce a new approach for computing curvature of sub-Riemannian manifolds. Curvature is here meant as symplectic invariants of Jacobi curves of geodesics, as introduced by Zelenko and Li. We describe how they can be expressed using a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Erlend Grong

We derive new, sharp lower bounds for certain curvature functionals on the space of Riemannian metrics of a smooth compact 4-manifold with a non-trivial Seiberg-Witten invariant. These allow one, for example, to exactly compute the infimum…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Claude LeBrun

We interpret the log-Brunn-Minkowski conjecture of B\"or\"oczky-Lutwak-Yang-Zhang as a spectral problem in centro-affine differential geometry. In particular, we show that the Hilbert-Brunn-Minkowski operator coincides with the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-02 Emanuel Milman

We introduce a new class of distances between nonnegative Radon measures in Euclidean spaces. They are modeled on the dynamical characterization of the Kantorovich-Rubinstein-Wasserstein distances proposed by Benamou-Brenier and provide a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Jean Dolbeault , Bruno Nazaret , Giuseppe Savare

In this note we prove that the Heisenberg group with a left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian metric admits a completely integrable totally geodesic distribution of codimension 1. This is on the contrary to the Riemannian case, as it was proved…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-02 Wafaa Batat , Salima Rahmani

Using Rauch's comparison theorem, we prove several monotonicity inequalities for Riemannian submanifolds. Our main result is a general Li-Yau inequality which is applicable in any Riemannian manifold whose sectional curvature is bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Christian Scharrer

In this paper, we want to establish some general results in the Lorentzian optimal transport theory that have well-known Riemannian counterparts. As a first result, we will provide non-trivial assumptions on the measures to ensure strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Alec Metsch

One of the most well-known results in the theory of optimal transportation is the equivalence between the convexity of the entropy functional with respect to the Riemannian Wasserstein metric and the Ricci curvature lower bound of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Paul W. Y. Lee