Non-embedding theorems of nilpotent Lie groups and sub-Riemannian manifolds

Abstract

We prove that there do not exist quasi-isometric embeddings of connected nonabelian nilpotent Lie groups equipped with left invariant Riemannian metrics into a metric measure space satisfying the curvaturedimension condition RCD(0;N) with N 2 R and N>1: In fact, we can prove that a sub-Riemannian manifold whose generic degree of nonholonomy is not smaller than 2 cannot be bi-Lipschitzly embedded in any Banach space with the Radon-Nikodym property. We also get that every regular sub-Riemannian manifold do not satisfy the curvature-dimension condition CD(K;N); where K;N 2 R and N>1: Along the way to the proofs, we show that the minimal weak upper gradient and the horizontal gradient coincide on the Carnot-Carathéodory spaces which may have independent interests.

Keywords

Nilpotent Lie group / curvature-dimension condition / bi-Lipschitz embedding / sub-Riemannian manifold

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