Failure of the curvature-dimension condition in sub-Finsler manifolds

Mattia Magnabosco (U Oxford)

May 24. 2024, 15:40 — 16:25

It has been recently proved that the Lott-Sturm-Villani CD(K,N) condition does not hold in any sub-Riemannian manifold equipped with a positive smooth measure, for every choice of the parameters K and N. In this talk, we investigate the validity of the analogous statement for sub-Finsler manifolds, providing two results in this direction. On the one hand, we show that the CD condition fails in sub-Finsler manifolds equipped with a smooth strongly convex norm and with a positive smooth measure. On the other hand, we prove that, on the sub-Finsler Heisenberg group, the same result holds for every reference norm. Moreover, we show that the validity of the measure contraction property MCP(K,N) on the sub-Finsler Heisenberg group depends on the regularity of the reference norm.

Further Information
Venue:
ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall
Recordings:
Recording
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)