Couplings and changes of variables.- Three examples of coupling techniques.- The founding fathers of optimal transport.- Qualitative description of optimal transport.- Basic properties.- Cyclical monotonicity and Kantorovich duality.- The Wasserstein distances.- Displacement interpolation.- The Monge-Mather shortening principle.- Solution of the Monge problem I: global approach.- Solution of the Monge problem II: Local approach.- The Jacobian equation.- Smoothness.- Qualitative picture.- Optimal transport and Riemannian geometry.- Ricci curvature.- Otto calculus.- Displacement convexity I.- Displacement convexity II.- Volume control.- Density control and local regularity.- Infinitesimal displacement convexity.- Isoperimetric-type inequalities.- Concentration inequalities.- Gradient flows I.- Gradient flows II: Qualitative properties.- Gradient flows III: Functional inequalities.- Synthetic treatment of Ricci curvature.- Analytic and synthetic points of view.- Convergence of metric-measure spaces.- Stability of optimal transport.- Weak Ricci curvature bounds I: Definition and Stability.- Weak Ricci curvature bounds II: Geometric and analytic properties.

Optimal Transport: Old and New

It is shown that 2+1 dimensional quantum Yang-Mills theory, with an action consisting purely of the Chern-Simons term, is exactly soluble and gives a natural framework for understanding the Jones polynomial of knot theory in three dimensional terms. In this version, the Jones polynomial can be generalized fromS
3 to arbitrary three manifolds, giving invariants of three manifolds that are computable from a surgery presentation. These results shed a surprising new light on conformal field theory in 1+1 dimensions.

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Quantum field theory and the Jones polynomial

Metric Spaces Length Spaces Constructions Spaces of Bounded Curvature Smooth Length Structures Curvature of Riemannian Metrics Space of Metric Spaces Large-scale Geometry Spaces of Curvature Bounded Above Spaces of Curvature Bounded Below Bibliography Index.

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A Course in Metric Geometry

Definitions. A parametrized (pseudo holomorphic) J-curve in an almost complex manifold (IS, J) is a holomorphic map of a Riemann surface into Is, say f : (S, J3 ~(V, J). The image C=f(S)C V is called a (non-parametrized) J-curve in V. A curve C C V is called closed if it can be (holomorphically !) parametrized by a closed surface S. We call C regular if there is a parametrization f : S ~ V which is a smooth proper embedding. A curve is called rational if one can choose S diffeomorphic to the sphere S 2.

Pseudo holomorphic curves in symplectic manifolds

Concentration functions and inequalities Isoperimetric and functional examples Concentration and geometry Concentration in product spaces Entropy and concentration Transportation cost inequalities Sharp bounds of Gaussian and empirical processes Selected applications References Index

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The concentration of measure phenomenon

Length Structures: Path Metric Spaces.- Degree and Dilatation.- Metric Structures on Families of Metric Spaces.- Convergence and Concentration of Metrics and Measures.- Loewner Rediscovered.- Manifolds with Bounded Ricci Curvature.- Isoperimetric Inequalities and Amenability.- Morse Theory and Minimal Models.- Pinching and Collapse.

Mikhael Gromov

Papers

Pseudo holomorphic curves in symplectic manifolds

Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces

Groups of polynomial growth and expanding maps

Asymptotic invariants of infinite groups

Filling Riemannian manifolds