Monotonicity and rigidity of the W-entropy on RCD(0, N) spaces

2018/11/17 by Kazumasa Kuwada, Kuwada, Kazumasa, Xiang‐Dong Li +1 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Differential Geometry Research #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Geometry and complex manifolds #Metric Geometry (math.MG) #Probability (math.PR)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1811.07228

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Abstract

By means of a space-time Wasserstein control, we show the monotonicity of the W-entropy functional in time along heat flows on possibly singular metric measure spaces with non-negative Ricci curvature and a finite upper bound of dimension in an appropriate sense. The associated rigidity result on the rate of dissipation of the W-entropy is also proved. These extend known results even on weighted Riemannian manifolds in some respects. In addition, we reveal that some singular spaces will exhibit the rigidity models while only the Euclidean space does in the class of smooth weighted Riemannian manifolds.

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