Sectional and intermediate Ricci curvature lower bounds via Optimal Transport

Abstract

The goal of the paper is to give an optimal transport characterization of sectional curvature lower (and upper) bounds for smooth $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. More generally we characterize, via optimal transport, lower bounds on the so called $p$-Ricci curvature which corresponds to taking the trace of the Riemann curvature tensor on $p$-dimensional planes, $1\le p\le n$. Such characterization roughly consists on a convexity condition of the $p$-Renyi entropy along $L^2$-Wasserstein geodesics, where the role of reference measure is played by the $p$-dimensional Hausdorff measure. As application we establish a new Brunn-Minkowski type inequality involving $p$-dimensional submanifolds and the $p$-dimensional Hausdorff measure.

Final version, published by Advances in Mathematics

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