TY - BOOK AU - Klartag,Bo'az TI - Needle decompositions in Riemannian geometry T2 - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society SN - 9781470425425 (alk. paper) U1 - 510 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Providence : PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Curvature KW - Decomposition (Mathematics) KW - Riemannian geometry N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 1. Introduction -- 2. Regularity of geodesic foliations -- 3. Conditioning a measure with respect to a geodesic foliation -- 4. The Monge-Kantorovich problem -- 5. Some applications -- 6. Further research -- Appendix: The Feldman-McCann proof of Lemma 2.4.1 Bibliography N2 - In a nutshell, the author's method is based on the following observation: When the Ricci curvature is non-negative, log-concave measures are obtained when conditioning the Riemannian volume measure with respect to a geodesic foliation that is orthogonal to the level sets of a Lipschitz function. The Monge mass transfer problem plays an important role in the author's analysis ER -