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Let $(M,\mathsf{d},\mathfrak{m},\ll,\leq,\tau)$ be a causally closed, $\mathscr{K}$-globally hyperbolic, regular measured Lorentzian geodesic space satisfying the weak timelike curvature-dimension condition $\smash{\mathrm{wTCD}_p^e(K,N)}$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Mathias Braun

We introduce the strong $q$-timelike Brunn-Minkowski condition $\mathsf{sTBM}_q(K,N)$ on synthetic Lorentzian spaces, for $0<q<1$. We show that, in the timelike $q$-essentially non-branching setting, the $q$-timelike curvature dimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Osama Farooqui

The paper establishes a sharp and rigid isoperimetric-type inequality in Lorentzian signature under the assumption of Ricci curvature bounded below in the timelike directions. The inequality is proved in the high generality of Lorentzian…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Fabio Cavalletti , Andrea Mondino

We prove that a globally hyperbolic smooth spacetime endowed with a $\smash{\mathrm{C}^1}$-Lorentzian metric whose Ricci tensor is bounded from below in all timelike directions, in a distributional sense, obeys the timelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 Mathias Braun , Matteo Calisti

We investigate the stability of timelike Ricci curvature lower bounds under low-regularity limits of Lorentzian metrics. Specifically, we prove that the synthetic curvature-dimension condition $TCD^e_p(K,N)$, which provides an optimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Andrea Mondino , Vanessa Ryborz , Clemens Sämann

We describe a nonsmooth notion of globally hyperbolic, regular length metric spacetimes $(\mathrm{M},l)$. It is based on ideas of Kunzinger-S\"amann, but does not require Lipschitz continuity of causal curves. We study geodesics on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Mathias Braun , Robert J. McCann

We prove that a Finsler spacetime endowed with a smooth reference measure whose induced weighted Ricci curvature $\smash{\mathrm{Ric}_N}$ is bounded from below by a real number $K$ in every timelike direction satisfies the timelike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Mathias Braun , Shin-ichi Ohta

The scope of this survey is to give a self-contained introduction to synthetic timelike Ricci curvature bounds for (possibly non-smooth) Lorentzian spaces via optimal transport $\&$ entropy tools, including a synthetic version of Hawking's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Fabio Cavalletti , Andrea Mondino

The goal of the present work is three-fold. The first goal is to set foundational results on optimal transport in Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces, including cyclical monotonicity, stability of optimal couplings and Kantorovich duality…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Fabio Cavalletti , Andrea Mondino

We prove that for non-branching metric measure spaces the local curvature condition CDloc(K,N) implies the global version of MCP(K,N). The curvature condition CD(K,N) introduced by the second author and also studied by Lott & Villani is the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Fabio Cavalletti , Karl-Theodor Sturm

Measure contraction property is a synthetic Ricci curvature lower bound for metric measure spaces. We consider Sasakian manifolds with non-negative Tanaka-Webster Ricci curvature equipped with the metric measure space structure defined by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Paul W. Y. Lee

In this paper, we prove the concavity of the Renyi entropy power for nonlinear diffusion equation (NLDE) associated with the Laplacian and the Witten Laplacian on compact Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Songzi Li , Xiang-Dong Li

We introduce several new notions of (sectional) curvature bounds for Lorentzian pre-length spaces: On the one hand, we provide convexity/concavity conditions for the (modified) time separation function, and, on the other hand, we study…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Tobias Beran , Michael Kunzinger , Felix Rott

In this note we show that in metric measure spaces satisfying the reduced curvature-dimension condition CD*(K,N) we always have geodesics in the Wasserstein space of probability measures that satisfy the critical convexity inequality of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-01 Tapio Rajala

On a Riemannian manifold, lower Ricci curvature bounds are known to be characterized by geodesic convexity properties of various entropies with respect to the Kantorovich-Rubinstein-Wasserstein square distance from optimal transportation.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Robert J McCann

We study (generalized) cones over metric spaces, both in Riemannian and Lorentzian signature. In particular, we establish synthetic lower Ricci curvature bounds \`a la Lott-Villani-Sturm and Ohta in the metric measure case, and \`a la…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Matteo Calisti , Christian Ketterer , Clemens Sämann

We prove a globally hyperbolic spacetime with locally Lipschitz continuous metric and timelike distributional Ricci curvature bounded from below obeys the timelike measure contraction property. The remarkable class of examples of spacetimes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Mathias Braun , Marta Sálamo Candal

In this article we study stability and compactness w.r.t. measured Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of smooth metric measure spaces with integral Ricci curvature bounds. More precisely, we prove that a sequence of $n$-dimensional Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Christian Ketterer

We give a simplified approach to Kunzinger & Saemann's theory of Lorentzian length spaces in the globally hyperbolic case; these provide a nonsmooth framework for general relativity. We close a gap in the regularly localizable setting, by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-26 Robert J. McCann

Measure contraction properties $MCP(K,N)$ 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 $N$, then $MCP(K,N)$ is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Paul W. Y. Lee
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