Optimal Transport Approach to Michael-Simon-Sobolev Inequalities in Manifolds with Intermediate Ricci Curvature Lower Bounds

Abstract

We generalize McCann's theorem of optimal transport to a submanifold setting and prove Michael-Simon-Sobolev inequalities for submanifolds in manifolds with lower bounds on intermediate Ricci curvatures. The results include a variant of the sharp Michael-Simon-Sobolev inequality in S. Brendle's work arXiv:2009.13717 when the intermediate Ricci curvatures are nonnegative.