Nearly round spheres look convex

Creators: Figalli, Alessio; Rifford, Ludovic; Villani, Cédric

Others:: Department of Mathematics and Statistics [Texas Tech] ; Texas Tech University [Lubbock] (TTU); Laboratoire Jean Alexandre Dieudonné (JAD) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Institut Camille Jordan [Villeurbanne] (ICJ) ; École Centrale de Lyon (ECL) ; Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL) ; Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon) ; Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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We prove that a Riemannian manifold (M, g), close enough to the round sphere in the C4 topology, has uniformly convex injectivity domains so M appears uniformly convex in any exponential chart. The proof is based on the Ma-Trudinger-Wang nonlocal curvature tensor, which originates from the regularity theory of optimal transport.

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Nearly round spheres look convex

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