On the Bakry-Émery condition, the gradient estimates and the Local-to-Global property of RCD*(K,N) metric measure spaces

Abstract: We prove higher summability and regularity of \Gamma(f) for functions f in spaces satisfying the Bakry-\'Emery condition BE(K,\infty). As a byproduct, we obtain various equivalent weak formulations of BE(K,N) and we prove the Local-to-Global property of the RCD*(K,N) condition in locally compact metric measure spaces (X,d,m), without assuming a priori the non-branching condition on the metric space.