Hypercontractivity, Nash inequalities and subordination for classes of nonlinear semigroups (Q1014783)

The authors consider a strongly continuous nonlinear semigroup \(\{T_t\}\) on a Hilbert space \(L^2(X,m)\) and say that it is hypercontractive if there exist \(\varepsilon >0\) and three \(C^1\)-functions \(r:[0,\varepsilon)\to [2,\infty)\), \(\alpha, k:[0,\varepsilon)\to (0,\infty)\), with \(r(0)=2\), \(r'(t)>0\) for all \(t\), \(\alpha(0)=1\), \(k(0)=1\) and such that \[ \|T_tu\|_{L^{r(t)}}\leq k(t)\|u\|^{\alpha(t)}_{L^2}. \] Provided that the infinitesimal generator \(H\) of a hypercontractive semigroup is strictly positive and subhomogeneous of degree \(p>2\), in the sense that \((u,Hu)_{L^2}> 0\) for all \(u\in D(H)\), \(u\neq 0\), and there exists \(M>0\) such that, for all \(\lambda>0\) and \(u\in D(H)\), one has \(\lambda u\in D(H)\) and \[ (\lambda u,\lambda Hu)_{L^2}\leq M\lambda^p(u,Hu)_{L^2}, \] and \(\alpha'(0)<0\), \(r'(0)>0\), in Theorem 2.9 they prove that for each \(m\in [1,2)\) there exists \(C>0\) such that, for each \(f\in D(H)\cap L^m\), the following inequality \[ \|f\|_{L^2}\leq C(Hf,f)_{L^2}^{\frac{k_1(2-m)}{m+pk_1(2-m)}}\|f\|_{L^m}^{\frac{m}{m+pk_1(2-m)}} \] holds, where \(k_1=-\frac{4\alpha'(0)}{(p-2)r'(0)}\). In particular, for \(m=1\), they obtain the Nash inequality. Using this result, they state that, for semigroups generated by \(p\)-Laplacian-type operators with \(p>2\), hypercontractivity implies ultracontractivity. (Theorem 3.2). Further, they introduce the notion of subordinated semigroup in the nonlinear contractive case, and find the explicit formula for the associated generator (Theorem 4.5). Finally, they obtain Nash-type inequalities for generators of subordinated semigroups (Theorem 5.6).