Sharp geometric and functional inequalities in metric measure spaces with lower Ricci curvature bounds (Q511621): Difference between revisions

The main purpose of this paper is to extend several functional inequalities working for Riemannian manifolds satisfying a lower bound on the Ricci curvature to the general case of metric measure spaces that fulfill the reduced curvature-dimension condition. The authors establish new versions of the Brunn-Minkowski inequality, the \(p\)-Poincaré inequality, the log-Sobolev inequality, the Talagrand inequality, and the Sobolev inequality. The proofs combine powerful analytic and variational arguments.