Milman's contracting transport conjecture for positively Ricci-curved spheres

Less than 1 year old · traced to

Let dd be a positive integer, let (Sd,g)(\mathbb{S}^d,g) be a Riemannian sphere with volume measure vol⁡g\operatorname{vol}_g, and suppose that

Ric⁡g≥ρg\operatorname{Ric}_g\geq \rho g

for some ρ>0\rho>0. Let gcanρg^\rho_{\mathrm{can}} be the canonical metric on Sd\mathbb{S}^d rescaled so that

Ric⁡gcanρ=ρgcanρ.\operatorname{Ric}_{g^\rho_{\mathrm{can}}}=\rho g^\rho_{\mathrm{can}}.

Milman's contracting transport conjecture. There exists a map

T:(Sd,gcanρ,vol⁡gcanρ)→(Sd,g,vol⁡g)T:(\mathbb{S}^d,g^\rho_{\mathrm{can}},\operatorname{vol}_{g^\rho_{\mathrm{can}}})\to(\mathbb{S}^d,g,\operatorname{vol}_g)

that pushes forward vol⁡gcanρ\operatorname{vol}_{g^\rho_{\mathrm{can}}} onto vol⁡g\operatorname{vol}_g up to a finite constant and contracts the corresponding metrics. This is a finite-dimensional analogue of the Gaussian contraction theorem, but the supplied text gives no resolution status for it.

References

Primary source

Shrey Aryan, “Spectral Obstructions to Contracting Transport Maps on Curved Spaces”, arXiv:2605.24705 (2026).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.