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JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
Volume 256, Issue 9, Pages 2944-2966Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2009.01.029
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Optimal transport; Ricci curvature; GH-limits; Graphs; Concentration of measure
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We introduce and study rough (approximate) lower curvature bounds for discrete spaces and for graphs. This notion agrees with the one introduced in [J. Lott, C. Villani, Ricci curvature for metric-measure spaces via optimal transport, Ann. of Math. 169 (2009), in press] and [K.T. Sturm, On the geometry of metric measure spaces. I, Acta Math. 196 (2006) 65-131], in the sense that the metric measure space which is approximated by a sequence of discrete spaces with rough curvature >= K will have curvature >= K in the sense of [J. Lott, C. Villani, Ricci curvature for metric-measure spaces via optimal transport, Ann. of Math. 169 (2009), in press; K.T. Sturm, On the geometry of metric measure spaces. I, Acta Math. 196 (2006) 65-131]. Moreover, in the converse direction, discretizations of metric measure spaces with curvature >= K will have rough curvature >= K. We apply our results to concrete examples of homogeneous planar graphs. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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