Symmetry breaking and weighted Euclidean logarithmic Sobolev inequalities

arXiv2210.12488MaRDI QIDQ6414780FDOQ6414780

Publication date: 22 October 2022

Abstract: On the Euclidean space, we establish some Weighted Logarithmic Sobolev (WLS) inequalities. We characterize a symmetry range in which optimal functions are radially symmetric, and a symmetry breaking range. (WLS) inequalities are a limit case for a family of subcritical Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg (CKN) inequalities with similar symmetry properties. A generalized carr'e du champ method applies not only to the optimal solution of the nonlinear elliptic Euler-Lagrange equation and proves a rigidity result as for (CKN) inequalities, but also to entropy type estimates, with the full strength of the carr'e du champ method in a parabolic setting. This is a significant improvement on known results for (CKN). Finally, we briefly sketch some consequences of our results for the weighted diffusion flow.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities involving derivatives and differential and integral operators (26D10) Inequalities applied to PDEs involving derivatives, differential and integral operators, or integrals (35A23) Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Variational inequalities (49J40) Functional inequalities, including subadditivity, convexity, etc. (39B62)

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