Convergence to equilibrium and logarithmic Sobolev constant on manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below

DOI10.4064/CM-67-1-109-121zbMath0816.53027OpenAlexW241852171MaRDI QIDQ4318113

Laurent Saloff-Coste

Publication date: 3 July 1995

Published in: Colloquium Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/210254

zbMATH Keywords

Ricci curvatureequilibriumLaplace-Beltrami operatorHarnack inequalitieslogarithmic Sobolev constantheat diffusion semigroup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

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