Sub-Riemannian manifolds are not CD

Giorgio Stefani (SISSA, Trieste)

May 23. 2024, 10:20 — 11:05

We prove that a sub-Riemannian manifold (possibly, rank-varying), equipped with any positive smooth measure, does not satisfy any synthetic curvature bound, yielding a ‘no-CD theorem’ for sub-Riemannian structures in full generality. This is a joint work with Luca Rizzi.

Further Information
Venue:
ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall
Associated Event:
Synthetic Curvature Bounds for Non-Smooth Spaces: Beyond Finite Dimension (Workshop)
Organizer(s):
Lorenzo Dello Schiavo (ISTA, Klosterneuburg)
Christian Ketterer (ALU Freiburg)
Chiara Rigoni (U of Vienna)