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Precompactness for abstract Bakry–Émery data

Establish a precompactness theorem for the space of abstract Bakry–Émery data, i.e., triples (A,H,L) equipped with a Markov semigroup and satisfying Bakry–Émery curvature-dimension inequalities, not necessarily arising from underlying metric-measure spaces.

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Background

The Bakry–Émery framework provides an abstract calculus for Markov semigroups, capturing curvature-dimension conditions beyond smooth Riemannian settings.

While precompactness results are known for geometric classes (e.g., metric-measure spaces with lower Ricci bounds), a corresponding theorem for abstract data sets not tightly linked to a specific space is missing.

References

To our knowledge there is no precompactness theorem for the space of ``abstract Bakry- Emery data".

Moduli space of Conformal Field Theories and non-commutative Riemannian geometry (2506.00896 - Soibelman, 1 Jun 2025) in Subsection 1.3, Spectral triples, Bakry calculus and Wasserstein spaces