Optimal hypercontractivity for Fermi fields and related non-commutative integration inequalities (Q1308450)

Let \({\mathcal F}\) be the Fock space, with the vacuum vector \(\Omega\), for a system of \(n\) fermion degrees of freedom, let \(c_ j\) and\(c_ j^*\), \(j=1,\dots,n\), be the fermion annihilation and creation operators, repsectively, and let \(H=\sum_{j=1}^ n c_ j^* c_ j\) be the number operator generating the oscillator semigroup \(\text{exp}(-tH)\). Put \(Q_ j= c_ j+ c_ j^*\), and denote by \({\mathfrak U}\) the algebra with unit generated by the \(Q_ j\)'s. Any vector \(v\) in \({\mathcal F}\) can be written as \(v=A\Omega\) for some unique \(A\) in \({\mathfrak U}\), and thus \(\text{exp}(-tH)v= B\Omega\) for some unique \(B\) in \({\mathfrak U}\). This gives rise to maps \(P_ t: A\to B\) which together with the algebra \({\mathfrak U}\) can replace the usual Fock space and the oscillator semigroup in various problems concerning Fermi fields. On \({\mathfrak U}\) (non- commutative) \(L^ p\)-norms can be introduced for \(1\leq p<\infty\) by the formula \[ \| A\|_ p= [\langle \Omega,(A^*A)^{p/2} \Omega\rangle]^{1/p}, \] and the main result of the paper lies in establishing the following optimal fermion hypercontractivity inequality \[ \| P_ t A\|_ q\leq \| A\|_ q \qquad \text{when} \qquad e^{-2t}\leq (p-1)/(q-1), \] for all \(1<p\leq q<\infty\) and all \(A\) in \({\mathfrak U}\). Moreover, optimal fermion logarithmic Sobolev inequality is also obtained.