On the Equivalence of the Entropic Curvature-Dimension Condition and Bochner's Inequality on Metric Measure Spaces

Abstract

We prove the equivalence of the curvature-dimension bounds of Lott-Sturm-Villani (via entropy and optimal transport) and of Bakry--Émery (via energy and Γ_2$-calculus)incompletegeneralityforinfinitesimallyHilbertianmetricmeasurespaces.Inparticular,weestablishthefullBochnerinequalityonsuchmetricmeasurespaces.Moreover,wededucenewcontractionboundsfortheheatflowonRiemannianmanifoldsandonmmsintermsofthe$L^2$-Wasserstein distance.

Additional results in Section 3.4 on dimension-dependent functional inequalities and Section 4.3 on applications to sharp spectral gap estimates. More detailed proof of the main result of Section 4.2

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