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Infinitesimal Hilbertianity of weighted Riemannian manifolds

The main result of this paper is the following: any `weighted' Riemannian manifold $(M,g,μ)$ - i.e. endowed with a generic non-negative Radon measure $μ$ - is `infinitesimally Hilbertian', which means that its associated Sobolev space $W^{1,2}(M,g,μ)$ is a Hilbert space. We actually prove a stronger result: the abstract tangent module (à la Gigli) associated to any weighted reversible Finsler manifold $(M,F,μ)$ can be isometrically embedded into the space of all measurable sections of the tangent bundle of $M$ that are $2$-integrable with respect to $μ$.