Timelike Ricci bounds for low regularity spacetimes by optimal transport

arXiv2209.03802MaRDI QIDQ6410114

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Publication date: 8 September 2022

Abstract: We prove that a globally hyperbolic smooth spacetime endowed with a $smashmathrm{C}^1$-Lorentzian metric whose Ricci tensor is bounded from below in all timelike directions, in a distributional sense, obeys the timelike measure-contraction property. This result includes a class of spacetimes with borderline regularity for which local existence results for the vacuum Einstein equation are known in the setting of spaces with timelike Ricci bounds in a synthetic sense. In particular, these spacetimes satisfy timelike Brunn-Minkowski, Bonnet-Myers, and Bishop-Gromov inequalities in sharp form, without any timelike nonbranching assumption. If the metric is even $smashmathrm{C}^{1,1}$, in fact the stronger timelike curvature-dimension condition holds. In this regularity, we also obtain uniqueness of chronological optimal couplings and chronological geodesics.

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