Abelianity conjecture for transitive graphs of non-negative Ollivier--Ricci curvature

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Let GG be a transitive graph with non-negative Ollivier--Ricci curvature. Recall that two metric spaces are quasi-isometric if they are equivalent up to multiplicative and additive distortion, and let Zd\mathbb{Z}^d denote the rank-dd integer lattice. Abelianity conjecture. Every transitive graph of non-negative Ollivier--Ricci curvature is quasi-isometric to Zd\mathbb{Z}^d for some d0d\geq 0. In particular, any group having a Cayley graph of non-negative Ollivier--Ricci curvature must be virtually abelian. This is proposed by analogy with the Cheeger--Gromoll splitting theorem for cocompact non-negatively Ricci-curved manifolds; versions for groups under stronger curvature notions are known, but the graph statement remains open.

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Tom Hutchcroft and Florentin Münch, “Bounded-degree graphs of non-negative Ollivier-Ricci curvature have subexponential growth and diffusive random walk”, arXiv:2512.03968 (2025).

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