Paper · Sep 27, 2023

The Wasserstein distance for Ricci shrinkers

Franciele Conrado, Detang Zhou

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Let be a Ricci shrinker such that and the measure induced by the weighted volume element is a probability measure. Given a point , we consider two probability measures defined in the tangent space , namely the Gaussian measure and the measure induced by the exponential map of to . In this paper, we prove a result that provides an upper estimate for the Wasserstein distance with respect to the Euclidean metric between the measures and , and which also elucidates the rigidity implications resulting from this estimate.

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