Logarithmic Sobolev trace inequality

A logarithmic Sobolev trace inequality is derived. Bounds on the best constant for this inequality from above and below are investigated using the sharp Sobolev inequality and the sharp logarithmic Sobolev inequality.

     

General Sobolev type inequalities for symmetric forms

A general Sobolev type inequality is introduced and studied for general symmetric forms by defining a new type of Cheeger's isoperimetric constant. Finally, concentration of measure for the Lp type logarithmic Sobolev inequality is presented.     

A capacitary weak type inequality for Sobolev functions and its applications

In this paper a capacitary weak type inequality for Sobolev functions is established and is applied to reprove some well-known results concerning Lebesgue points, Taylor expansions in the -sense, and the Lusin type approximation of Sobolev functions.

     

Time-dependent Sobolev inequality along the Ricci flow

In this article, we get a time-dependent Sobolev inequality along the Ricci flow in a more general situation than those in Zhang (A uniform Sobolev inequality under Ricci flow. Int Math Res Not IMRN 2007, no 17, Art ID rnm056, 17 pp), Ye (The logarithmic Sobolev inequality along the Ricci flow. arXiv:0707.2424v2) and Hsu (Uniform Sobolev inequalities for manifolds evolving by Ricci flow. arXiv:0708.0893v1) which also generalizes the results of them. As an application of the time-dependent Sobolev inequality, we get a growth of the ratio of non-collapsing along immortal solutions of Ricci flow.     

A logarithmic sobolev inequality on the Real Line

A new logarithmic Sobolev inequality for the real line is obtained. The inequality is obtained by applying a differentiation argument to a sharp Sobolev inequality due to Nagy, and is rather that in structure.

     

Optimal Gaussian Sobolev embeddings

A reduction theorem is established, showing that any Sobolev inequality, involving arbitrary rearrangement-invariant norms with respect to the Gauss measure in Rn, is equivalent to a one-dimensional inequality, for a suitable Hardy-type operator, involving the same norms with respect to the standard Lebesgue measure on the unit interval. This result is exploited to provide a general characterization of optimal range and domain norms in Gaussian Sobolev inequalities. Applications to special instances yield optimal Gaussian Sobolev inequalities in Orlicz and Lorentz(-Zygmund) spaces, point out new phenomena, such as the existence of self-optimal spaces, and provide further insight into classical results.     

The general optimal L-Euclidean logarithmic Sobolev inequality by Hamilton-Jacobi equations

We prove a general optimal L^p-Euclidean logarithmic Sobolev inequality by using Prékopa-Leindler inequality and a special Hamilton-Jacobi equation. In particular we generalize the inequality proved by Del Pino and Dolbeault in (J. Funt. Anal.).     

Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and the growth of norms

We show that many of the recent results on exponential integrability of Lip 1 functions, when a logarithmic Sobolev inequality holds, follow from more fundamental estimates of the growth of norms under the same hypotheses.

     

Ultracontractive bounds on Hamilton-Jacobi solutions

Following the equivalence between logarithmic Sobolev inequality, hypercontractivity of the heat semigroup showed by Gross and hypercontractivity of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, we prove, like the Varopoulos theorem, the equivalence between Euclidean-type Sobolev inequality and an ultracontractive control of the Hamilton-Jacobi equations. We obtain also ultracontractive estimations under general Sobolev inequality which imply in the particular case of a probability measure, transportation inequalities.     

Weak logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and entropic convergence

In this paper we introduce and study a weakened form of logarithmic Sobolev inequalities in connection with various others functional inequalities (weak Poincaré inequalities, general Beckner inequalities, etc.). We also discuss the quantitative behaviour of relative entropy along a symmetric diffusion semi-group. In particular, we exhibit an example where Poincaré inequality can not be used for deriving entropic convergence whence weak logarithmic Sobolev inequality ensures the result.      

Équations de Hamilton–Jacobi et inégalités entropiques généraliséesHamilton–Jacobi equations and inequalities for generalised entropies

We prove the equivalence between a general logarithmic Sobolev inequality and the hypercontractivity of a Hamilton–Jacobi equation. We also recover that this property imply a transportation inequality established by [5]. These results provide a natural generalization of the work performed in [3]. To cite this article: I. Gentil, F. Malrieu, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 335 (2002) 437–440.     

Dirichlet and Neumann problems to critical Emden–Fowler type equations

We describe recent results on attainability of sharp constants in the Sobolev inequality, the Sobolev–Poincaré inequality, the Hardy–Sobolev inequality and related inequalities. This gives us the solvability of boundary value problems to critical Emden–Fowler equations.      

Error estimates for scattered data interpolation on spheres

We study Sobolev type estimates for the approximation order resulting from using strictly positive definite kernels to do interpolation on the -sphere. The interpolation knots are scattered. Our approach partly follows the general theory of Golomb and Weinberger and related estimates. These error estimates are then based on series expansions of smooth functions in terms of spherical harmonics. The Markov inequality for spherical harmonics is essential to our analysis and is used in order to find lower bounds for certain sampling operators on spaces of spherical harmonics.

     

A general two-scale criteria for logarithmic Sobolev inequalities

We present a general criteria to prove that a probability measure satisfies a logarithmic Sobolev inequality, knowing that some of its marginals and associated conditional laws satisfy a logarithmic Sobolev inequality. This is a generalization of a result by N. Grunewald et al. [N. Grunewald, F. Otto, C. Villani, M.G. Westdickenberg, A two-scale approach to logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and the hydrodynamic limit, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist., in press].     

泛函极小与非线性椭圆方程解的局部正则性

利用Giaquinta和Giusti的嵌入不等式和Sobolev空间方法,证明了在更一般条件下的变分问题中的泛函极小与非线性椭圆方程弱解的局部正则性.     

A new modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality for Poisson point processes and several applications

By means of the martingale representation, we establish a new modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality, which covers the previous modified logarithmic Sobolev inequalities of Bobkov-Ledoux and the L ¹-logarithmic Sobolev inequality obtained in our previous work. From it we derive several sharp deviation inequalities of Talagrand's type, by following the powerful Herbst method developed recently by Ledoux and al. Moreover this new modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality is transported on the discontinuous path space with respect to the law of a Lévy process. Received: 16 June 1999 / Revised version: 13 March 2000 / Published online: 12 October 2000     

Maximum principles for weak solutions of degenerate elliptic equations with a uniformly elliptic direction

For second order linear equations and inequalities which are degenerate elliptic but which possess a uniformly elliptic direction, we formulate and prove weak maximum principles which are compatible with a solvability theory in suitably weighted versions of L²-based Sobolev spaces. The operators are not necessarily in divergence form, have terms of lower order, and have low regularity assumptions on the coefficients. The needed weighted Sobolev spaces are, in general, anisotropic spaces defined by a non-negative continuous matrix weight. As preparation, we prove a Poincaré inequality with respect to such matrix weights and analyze the elementary properties of the weighted spaces. Comparisons to known results and examples of operators which are elliptic away from a hyperplane of arbitrary codimension are given. Finally, in the important special case of operators whose principal part is of Grushin type, we apply these results to obtain some spectral theory results such as the existence of a principal eigenvalue.     

Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev and Stein–Weiss inequalities on homogeneous Lie groups

In this note, we prove the Stein–Weiss inequality on general homogeneous Lie groups. The obtained results extend previously known inequalities. Special properties of homogeneous norms play a key role in our proofs. Also, we give a simple proof of the Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev inequality on general homogeneous Lie groups.     

Uniform Sobolev Inequality along the Sasaki–Ricci Flow

In this paper we prove a uniform Sobolev inequality along the Sasaki–Ricci flow. In the process, we develop the theory of basic Lebesgue and Sobolev function spaces, and prove some general results about the decomposition of the heat kernel for a class of elliptic operators on a Sasaki manifold.     

A (one-dimensional) free Brunn–Minkowski inequality

We present a one-dimensional version of the functional form of the geometric Brunn–Minkowski inequality in free (non-commutative) probability theory. The proof relies on matrix approximation as used recently by Biane and Hiai et al. to establish free analogues of the logarithmic Sobolev and transportation cost inequalities for strictly convex potentials, that are recovered here from the Brunn–Minkowski inequality as in the classical case. The method is used to extend to the free setting the Otto–Villani theorem stating that the logarithmic Sobolev inequality implies the transportation cost inequality. To cite this article: M. Ledoux, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 340 (2005).