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arxiv: 2605.24705 · v1 · pith:WPQMVRIPnew · submitted 2026-05-23 · 🧮 math.DG · math.PR· math.SP

Spectral Obstructions to Contracting Transport Maps on Curved Spaces

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Caffarelli's contraction theorem states that the Brenier optimal transport map from the standard Gaussian measure to a more log-concave probability measure is 1-Lipschitz. Owing to its many applications in analysis, probability, and geometry, the problem of extending this theorem to curved spaces has appeared repeatedly in the literature, going back to Villani [V09]. More recently, Milman [Mil18] formulated precise conjectures in this direction. In this work, we construct counterexamples to these conjectures.

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