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arxiv: 1207.6754 · v2 · pith:OE52XEVOnew · submitted 2012-07-29 · 🧮 math.DG · math.MG

Non-branching geodesics and optimal maps in strong CD(K,{infty})-spaces

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We prove that in metric measure spaces where the entropy functional is K-convex along every Wasserstein geodesic any optimal transport between two absolutely continuous measures with finite second moments lives on a non-branching set of geodesics. As a corollary we obtain that in these spaces there exists only one optimal transport plan between any two absolutely continuous measures with finite second moments and this plan is given by a map. The results are applicable in metric measure spaces having Riemannian Ricci-curvature bounded below, and in particular they hold also for Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Riemannian manifolds with Ricci-curvature bounded from below by some constant.

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