Generalized Bochner formulas and Ricci lower bounds for sub-Riemannian manifolds of rank two

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We study a new class of rank two sub-Riemannian manifolds encompassing Riemannian manifolds, CR manifolds with vanishing Webster-Tanaka torsion, orthonormal bundles over Riemannian manifolds, and graded nilpotent Lie groups of step two. These manifolds admit a canonical horizontal connection and a canonical sub-Laplacian. We construct on these manifolds an analogue of the Riemannian Ricci tensor and prove Bochner type formulas for the sub-Laplacian. As a consequence, it is possible to formulate on these spaces a sub-Riemannian analogue of the so-called curvature dimension inequality. Sub-Riemannian manifolds for which this inequality is satisfied are shown to share many properties in common with Riemannian manifolds whose Ricci curvature is bounded from below
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Differential Geometry, Analysis of PDEs

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/226433

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https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1623
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