Ketterer’s synthetic curvature conjecture for general NN-warped products

Let BB be a metric-measure base of dimension dd, let FF be an essentially non-branching metric-measure space, and let ff be a Lipschitz nonnegative warping function. Let BB^\dagger be obtained by gluing two copies of BB along the closure of the boundary points where ff is nonvanishing, and let ff^\dagger be the tautological extension. Write

KF=supB(Kf2+Df2),K_F=\sup_B\bigl(Kf^2+|Df|^2\bigr),

where DfDf is the Alexandrov differential. General NN-warped-product curvature conjecture. The NN-warped product of BB, FF, and ff satisfies CD(K(N+d1),N+d)\mathsf{CD}(K(N+d-1),N+d) if BB is CBB(K)CBB(K), ff is fKfK-concave, BB^\dagger has CBB(K)CBB(K) and ff^\dagger is fKfK-concave, and FF is an essentially non-branching CD(KF(N1),N)\mathsf{CD}(K_F(N-1),N) space. This proposes a synthetic curvature-dimension theorem extending the preceding smooth and interval-base results; the source presents it as a conjectural general statement.

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Christian Ketterer, “Warped products and synthetic lower curvature bounds: an overview”, arXiv:2503.05521 (2025).

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