The non-smooth curvature-dimension conjecture for warped products

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Let (B,dB)(B,d_B) be a complete Alexandrov space with dim⁡B=d\dim_B=d, and let (F,dF,mF)(F,d_F,m_F) be a metric measure space. Let f:B→R≥0f:B\rightarrow\mathbb{R}_{\geq 0} be continuous with ∂B⊂f−1({0})\partial B\subset f^{-1}(\{0\}). Assume that (F,mF)(F,m_F) satisfies CD((N−1)KF,N)CD((N-1)K_F,N) and that ff is FK\mathcal{F}K-concave, with the following conditions:

  1. If ∂B=∅\partial B=\emptyset, suppose KF≥Kf2K_F\geq Kf^2.
  2. If ∂B≠∅\partial B\neq\emptyset, suppose KF≥0K_F\geq 0 and Dfp≤KFDf_p\leq\sqrt{K_F} for all p∈Xp\in X.

Non-smooth warped-product conjecture. Then the NN-warped product B×fNFB\times^N_f F satisfies CD((N+d−1)K,N+d)CD((N+d-1)K,N+d).

The theorem preceding this statement establishes the corresponding result in the smooth setting, while the singularity-transport result applies when BB is Alexandrov and FF is a general metric measure space. The conjecture proposes that the curvature-dimension bound extends to this non-smooth warped-product setting.

References

Primary source

Christian Ketterer, “Ricci curvature bounds for warped products”, arXiv:1209.1325 (2013).

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