Abstract
We characterize lower bounds for the Bakry–Emery Ricci tensor of nonsymmetric diffusion operators by convexity
of entropy and line integrals on the
Acknowledgements
This work was done while the author was in residence at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, during the Spring 2016 semester, supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS-1440140. The author thanks the organizers of the Differential Geometry Program and MSRI for providing a great environment for research. The author is also very grateful to the unknown reviewer for his careful reading of the article and his remarks.
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