Dimensional contraction in Wasserstein distance for diffusion semigroups on a Riemannian manifold

Abstract: We prove a refined contraction inequality for diffusion semigroups with respect to the Wasserstein distance on a compact Riemannian manifold taking account of the dimension. The result generalizes in a Riemannian context, the dimensional contraction established in [BGG13] for the Euclidean heat equation. It is proved by using a dimensional coercive estimate for the Hodge-de Rham semigroup on 1-forms.