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Heat Flow on Metric Measure Spaces

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In order to develop a second-order differential calculus on spaces with curvature bounds we need to make use of the regularising effects of the heat flow, to which this chapter is dedicated.

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  1. Ambrosio, L., Gigli, N., Savaré, G.: Gradient flows in metric spaces and in the space of probability measures. In: Lectures in Mathematics ETH Zürich, 2nd edn. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel (2008)

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  2. Ambrosio, L., Gigli, N., Savaré, G.: Calculus and heat flow in metric measure spaces and applications to spaces with Ricci bounds from below. Invent. Math. 195, 289–391 (2014)

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Gigli, N., Pasqualetto, E. (2020). Heat Flow on Metric Measure Spaces. In: Lectures on Nonsmooth Differential Geometry. SISSA Springer Series, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38613-9_5

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