{ "id": "1407.0809", "version": "v1", "published": "2014-07-03T08:01:09.000Z", "updated": "2014-07-03T08:01:09.000Z", "title": "Nonsmooth differential geometry - An approach tailored for spaces with Ricci curvature bounded from below", "authors": [ "Nicola Gigli" ], "categories": [ "math.DG", "math.MG" ], "abstract": "We discuss in which sense general metric measure spaces possess a first order differential structure. Building on this, we then see that on spaces with Ricci curvature bounded from below a second order calculus can be developed, permitting to define Hessian, covariant/exterior derivatives and Ricci curvature.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-07-03T08:01:09.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "51Fxx" ], "keywords": [ "ricci curvature", "nonsmooth differential geometry", "general metric measure spaces possess", "sense general metric measure spaces" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1407.0809G" } } }