Structure Theory of Metric-Measure Spaces with Lower Ricci Curvature Bounds

Abstract

We prove that a metric measure space $(X,d,m)$ satisfying finite dimensional lower Ricci curvature bounds and whose Sobolev space $W^{1,2}$ is Hilbert is rectifiable. That is, a $RC{D}^{\ast }(K,N)$-space is rectifiable, and in particular for $m$-a.e. point the tangent cone is unique and euclidean of dimension at most $N$. The proof is based on a maximal function argument combined with an original Almost Splitting Theorem via estimates on the gradient of the excess. To this aim we also show a sharp integral Abresh-Gromoll type inequality on the excess function and an Abresh-Gromoll-type inequality on the gradient of the excess. The argument is new even in the smooth setting.

39 pages. Final version to appear in the Journal of the European Math. Society (JEMS)

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