Let $\M$ be a smooth connected manifold endowed with a smooth measure $\mu$ and a smooth locally subelliptic diffusion operator $L$ satisfying $L1=0$, and which is symmetric with respect to $\mu$. Associated with $L$ one has \textitle carr\'e du champ $\Gamma$ and a canonical distance $d$, with respect to which we suppose that $(M,d)$ be complete. We assume that $\M$ is also equipped with another first-order differential bilinear form $\Gamma^Z$ and we assume that $\Gamma$ and $\Gamma^Z$ satisfy the Hypothesis below. With these forms we introduce in \eqrefcdi below a generalization of the curvature-dimension inequality from Riemannian geometry, see Definition \refD:cdi. In our main results we prove that, using solely \eqrefcdi, one can develop a theory which parallels the celebrated works of Yau, and Li-Yau on complete manifolds with Ricci bounded from below. We also obtain an analogue of the Bonnet-Myers theorem. In Section \refS:appendix we construct large classes of sub-Riemannian manifolds with transverse symmetries which satisfy the generalized curvature-dimension inequality \eqrefcdi. Such classes include all Sasakian manifolds whose horizontal Webster-Tanaka-Ricci curvature is bounded from below, all Carnot groups with step two, and wide subclasses of principal bundles over Riemannian manifolds whose Ricci curvature is bounded from below.

Curvature-dimension inequalities and Ricci lower bounds for sub-Riemannian manifolds with transverse symmetries

GAROFALO, NICOLA
2017

Abstract

Let $\M$ be a smooth connected manifold endowed with a smooth measure $\mu$ and a smooth locally subelliptic diffusion operator $L$ satisfying $L1=0$, and which is symmetric with respect to $\mu$. Associated with $L$ one has \textitle carr\'e du champ $\Gamma$ and a canonical distance $d$, with respect to which we suppose that $(M,d)$ be complete. We assume that $\M$ is also equipped with another first-order differential bilinear form $\Gamma^Z$ and we assume that $\Gamma$ and $\Gamma^Z$ satisfy the Hypothesis below. With these forms we introduce in \eqrefcdi below a generalization of the curvature-dimension inequality from Riemannian geometry, see Definition \refD:cdi. In our main results we prove that, using solely \eqrefcdi, one can develop a theory which parallels the celebrated works of Yau, and Li-Yau on complete manifolds with Ricci bounded from below. We also obtain an analogue of the Bonnet-Myers theorem. In Section \refS:appendix we construct large classes of sub-Riemannian manifolds with transverse symmetries which satisfy the generalized curvature-dimension inequality \eqrefcdi. Such classes include all Sasakian manifolds whose horizontal Webster-Tanaka-Ricci curvature is bounded from below, all Carnot groups with step two, and wide subclasses of principal bundles over Riemannian manifolds whose Ricci curvature is bounded from below.
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