Transportation-Cost Inequalities on Path Space over Manifolds with Boundary

Let L = ∆ + Z for a C vector field Z on a complete Riemannian manifold possibly with a boundary. A number of transportation-cost inequalities on the path space for the (reflecting) L-diffusion process are proved to be equivalent to the curvature condition Ric−∇Z ≥ −K and the convexity of the boundary (if exists). These inequalities are new even for manifolds without boundary, and are partly extended to non-convex manifolds by using a conformal change of metric which makes the boundary from non-convex to convex. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 60J60, 58G60.