Glued spaces and lower curvature bounds

Abstract

In this short note we survey theorems and provide conjectures on gluing constructions under lower curvature bounds in smooth and non-smooth context. Focusing on synthetic lower Ricci curvature bounds we consider Riemannian manifolds, weighted Riemannian manifolds, Alexandrov spaces, collapsed and non-collapsed $RCD$ spaces, and sub-Riemannian spaces.

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