Configuration Spaces over Singular Spaces -- II. Curvature

Abstract

This is the second paper of a series on configuration spaces $\Upsilon$ over singular spaces $X$. Here, we focus on geometric aspects of the extended metric measure space $(\Upsilon, \mathsf{d}_{\Upsilon}, \mu)$ equipped with the $L^2$-transportation distance $\mathsf{d}_{\Upsilon}$, and a mixed Poisson measure $\mu$. Firstly, we establish the essential self-adjointness and the $L^p$-uniqueness for the Laplacian on $\Upsilon$ lifted from $X$. Secondly, we prove the equivalence of Bakry-\'Emery curvature bounds on $X$ and on $\Upsilon$, without any metric assumption on $X$. We further prove the Evolution Variation Inequality on $\Upsilon$, and introduce the notion of synthetic Ricci-curvature lower bounds for the extended metric measure space $\Upsilon$. As an application, we prove the Sobolev-to-Lipschitz property on $\Upsilon$ over singular spaces $X$, originally conjectured in the case when $X$ is a manifold by M. R\"ockner and A. Schield. As a further application, we prove the $L^\infty$-to-$\mathsf{d}_{\Upsilon}$-Lipschitz regularization of the heat semigroup on $\Upsilon$ and gives a new characterization of the ergodicity of the corresponding particle systems in terms of optimal transport.