Poincar and Weak Poincar Inequalities for the Mixed Poisson Measure

By using the Mecke identity, we study a class of birth-death type Dirichlet forms associated with the mixed Poisson measure. Both Poincar and weak Poincar inequalities are established, while another Poincar type inequality is disproved under some reasonable assumptions.     

On the Poincaré inequality for vector fields

We prove the Poincaré inequality for vector fields on the balls of the control distance by integrating along subunit paths. Our method requires that the balls are representable by means of suitable “controllable almost exponential maps”. Both authors were partially supported by the University of Bologna, funds for selected research topics.     

On extension and refinement of the Poincaré inequality

The aim of this paper is to analyze the heat semigroup ${(\mathcal{N}_{t})_{t >0 } = \{e^{t \Delta}\}_{t >0 }}$ generated by the usual Laplacian operator Δ on ${\mathbb{R}^{d}}$ equipped with the d-dimensional Lebesgue measure. We obtain and study, via a method involving some semigroup techniques, a large family of functional inequalities that does not exist in the literature and with the local Poincaré and reverse local Poincaré inequalities as particular cases. As a consequence, we establish in parallel a new functional and integral inequality related to the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck semigroup.     

A sub-Riemannian curvature-dimension inequality,volume doubling property and the Poincaré inequality

Let $\mathbb M $ be a smooth connected manifold endowed with a smooth measure $\mu $ and a smooth locally subelliptic diffusion operator $L$ satisfying $L1=0$ , and which is symmetric with respect to $\mu $ . We show that if $L$ satisfies, with a non negative curvature parameter, the generalized curvature inequality introduced by the first and third named authors in http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3590, then the following properties hold:

• The volume doubling property;
• The Poincaré inequality;
• The parabolic Harnack inequality.

The key ingredient is the study of dimension dependent reverse log-Sobolev inequalities for the heat semigroup and corresponding non-linear reverse Harnack type inequalities. Our results apply in particular to all Sasakian manifolds whose horizontal Webster–Tanaka–Ricci curvature is nonnegative, all Carnot groups of step two, and to wide subclasses of principal bundles over Riemannian manifolds whose Ricci curvature is nonnegative.     

A Sawyer-type sufficient condition for the weighted Poincaré inequality

In this paper we prove the Poincaré-type weighted inequality

$$\begin{aligned} \Vert v^{1/q} f \Vert _{L^q(\Omega )} \le C \Vert \omega ^{1/p} \nabla f \Vert _{L^p(\Omega )}, \quad q\ge p>1, \end{aligned}$$

for a locally Lipschitz function f with a weighted mean equal to zero over a convex bounded domain \(\Omega \); here the weights v, \(\omega \) are positive measurable functions which satisfy a certain compatibility condition. This result is a generalization of the well-known weighted Poincaré inequality to the case of more general weights in the sense that we do not use the traditional conditions of high summability \(v,\, \omega ^{-\frac{1}{p-1}}\in L^{r,loc}\) with \(r>1\) for \(q=p\) or the reverse doubling condition on the function v for \(q>p\) . In other words, a Sawyer type sufficient condition on weight functions is established.

     

Modulus and the Poincaré inequality on metric measure spaces

The purpose of this paper is to develop the understanding of modulus and the Poincaré inequality, as defined on metric measure spaces. Various definitions for modulus and capacity are shown to coincide for general collections of metric measure spaces. Consequently, modulus is shown to be upper semi-continuous with respect to the limit of a sequence of curve families contained in a converging sequence of metric measure spaces. Moreover, several competing definitions for the Poincaré inequality are shown to coincide, if the underlying measure is doubling. One such characterization considers only continuous functions and their continuous upper gradients, and extends work of Heinonen and Koskela. Applications include showing that the p-Poincaré inequality (with a doubling measure), for p1, persists through to the limit of a sequence of converging pointed metric measure spaces — this extends results of Cheeger. A further application is the construction of new doubling measures in Euclidean space which admit a 1-Poincaré inequality. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):31C15, 46E35.     

Integral representations and the generalized Poincaré inequality on Carnot groups

We give some integral representations of the form f(x) = P(f)+K(?f) on two-step Carnot groups, where P(f) is a polynomial and K is an integral operator with a specific singularity. We then obtain the weak Poincaré inequality and coercive estimates as well as the generalized Poincaré inequality on the general Carnot groups.     

A concrete estimate for the weak Poincar�� inequality on loop space

The aim of the paper is to study the pinned Wiener measure on the loop space over a simply connected compact Riemannian manifold together with a Hilbert space structure and the Ornstein?CUhlenbeck operator d*d. We give a concrete estimate for the weak Poincaré inequality, assuming positivity of the Ricci curvature of the underlying manifold. The order of the rate function is s ^??? for any ?? >?0.     

Multiple periodic points of the Poincaré map of Lagrangian systems on tori

In this paper, suppose , A is positive definite and symmetric, and both A and V are and 1-periodic in all of their variables. We prove that the Poincaré map (i.e. the time-1-solution map) of the Lagrangian system possesses infinitely many periodic points on produced by contractible integer periodic solutions. Received July 23, 1997; in final form December 17, 1998     

Global bifurcation of fixed points and the Poincaré translation operator on manifolds

Let M be a differentiable manifold and [0, )×MM be a C¹ map satisfying the condition (0, p)=p for all pM. Among other results, we prove that when the degree (also called Hopf index or Euler characteristic) of the tangent vector field wMTM, given by w(p)=(/)(0, p), is well defined and nonzero, then the set (of nontrivial pairs) admits a connected subset whose closure is not compact and meets the slice {0}×M of [0, )×M. This extends known results regarding the existence of harmonic solutions of periodic ordinary differential equations on manifolds.     

A topological version of the Poincaré-Birkhoff theorem with two fixed points

The main result of this paper gives a topological property satisfied by any homeomorphism of the annulus \mathbb A = \mathbb S¹ ×[-1, 1]{\mathbb {A} = \mathbb {S}^1 \times [-1, 1]} isotopic to the identity and with at most one fixed point. This generalizes the classical Poincaré-Birkhoff theorem because this property certainly does not hold for an area preserving homeomorphism h of \mathbb A{\mathbb {A}} with the usual boundary twist condition. We also have two corollaries of this result. The first one shows in particular that the boundary twist assumption may be weakened by demanding that the homeomorphism h has a lift H to the strip [(\mathbbA)\tilde] = \mathbbR ×[-1, 1]{\tilde{\mathbb{A}} = \mathbb{R} \times [-1, 1]} possessing both a forward orbit unbounded on the right and a forward orbit unbounded on the left. As a second corollary we get a new proof of a version of the Conley–Zehnder theorem in \mathbb A{\mathbb {A}} : if a homeomorphism of \mathbb A{\mathbb {A}} isotopic to the identity preserves the area and has mean rotation zero, then it possesses two fixed points.     

The converse of the Loewner–Heinz inequality via perspective

The Loewner–Heinz inequality is not only the most essential one in operator theory, but also a fundamental tool for treating operator inequalities. The aim of this paper is to investigate the converse of the Loewner–Heinz inequality in the view point of perspective and generalized perspective of operator monotone and multiplicative functions. Indeed, we give perspective inequalities equivalent to the Loewner–Heinz inequality.     

Best constant in a three-parameter Poincaré inequality

We study the problem of finding the best constant in the generalized Poincaré inequality

The limitations of the Poincaré inequality for Grušin type operators

We examine the validity of the Poincaré inequality for degenerate, second-order, elliptic operators H in divergence form on \({L_2(\mathbf{R}^{n}\times \mathbf{R}^{m})}\) . We assume the coefficients are real symmetric and \({a_1H_\delta\geq H\geq a_2H_\delta}\) for some \({a_1,a_2>0}\) where H _δ is a generalized Gru?in operator, $$H_\delta=-\nabla_{x_1}\,|x_1|^{\left(2\delta_1,2\delta_1'\right)} \,\nabla_{x_1}-|x_1|^{\left(2\delta_2,2\delta_2'\right)} \,\nabla_{x_2}^2.$$ Here \({x_1 \in \mathbf{R}^n,\; x_2 \in \mathbf{R}^m,\;\delta_1,\delta_1'\in[0,1\rangle,\;\delta_2,\delta_2'\geq0}\) and \({|x_1|^{\left(2\delta,2\delta'\right)}=|x_1|^{2\delta}}\) if \({|x_1|\leq 1}\) and \({|x_1|^{\left(2\delta,2\delta'\right)}=|x_1|^{2\delta'}}\) if \({|x_1|\geq 1}\) . We prove that the Poincaré inequality, formulated in terms of the geometry corresponding to the control distance of H, is valid if n ≥ 2, or if n = 1 and \({\delta_1\vee\delta_1'\in[0,1/2\rangle}\) but it fails if n = 1 and \({\delta_1\vee\delta_1'\in[1/2,1\rangle}\) . The failure is caused by the leading term. If \({\delta_1\in[1/2, 1\rangle}\) , it is an effect of the local degeneracy \({|x_1|^{2\delta_1}}\) , but if \({\delta_1\in[0, 1/2\rangle}\) and \({\delta_1'\in [1/2,1\rangle}\) , it is an effect of the growth at infinity of \({|x_1|^{2\delta_1'}}\) . If n = 1 and \({\delta_1\in[1/2, 1\rangle}\) , then the semigroup S generated by the Friedrichs’ extension of H is not ergodic. The subspaces \({x_1\geq 0}\) and \({x_1\leq 0}\) are S-invariant, and the Poincaré inequality is valid on each of these subspaces. If, however, \({n=1,\; \delta_1\in[0, 1/2\rangle}\) and \({\delta_1'\in [1/2,1\rangle}\) , then the semigroup S is ergodic, but the Poincaré inequality is only valid locally. Finally, we discuss the implication of these results for the Gaussian and non-Gaussian behaviour of the semigroup S.     

Smooth metric measure spaces with weighted Poincaré inequality

In this paper, we study smooth metric measure space (M, g, e ^?f dv) satisfying a weighted Poincaré inequality and establish a rigidity theorem for such a space under a suitable Bakry–Émery curvature lower bound. We also consider the space of f-harmonic functions with finite energy and prove a structure theorem.     

A Poincaré type inequality for one-dimensional multiprojective foliations

We study one-dimensional holomorphic foliations on products of complex projective spaces and present results giving the number of singularities, counting multiplicities, of a generic foliation, a criterion for a foliation to be Riccati and a Poincaré type inequality, relating degrees of foliations to degrees of hypersurfaces which are invariant by them.