A sharp log-Sobolev inequality for the multislice (Q2077186)

This paper studies a sharp log-Sobolev inequality for the multislice. Consider a list of positive integers \(\kappa=(\kappa_1,\kappa_2,\cdots,\kappa_L)\) for some \(L\ge2\) and \(n=\kappa_1+\kappa_2+\cdots+\kappa_L\). Let \(\tau_{LS}(\kappa)\) be the optimal values in the corresponding functional inequality known as the log-Sobolev constant. Let \(\kappa_{\min}\) be the minimum number of the list \(\kappa\). The main result of the paper is a log-Sobolev constant of the multislice. For all values of \(\kappa\), the following inequalities hold: \(\log(n/\kappa_{\min})\le\tau_{LS}(\kappa)\le(4/\log2)\log(n/\kappa_{\min})\). The sharpness of constant is proved. The pre-factor in front of the logarithm is sharp.