Sharp weighted log-Sobolev inequalities: characterization of equality cases and applications

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Authors: Zoltán M. Balogh, Sebastiano Don, Alexandru Kristály 

Abstract: By using optimal mass transport theory, we provide a direct proof to the sharp $L^p$-log-Sobolev inequality $(pgeq1)$ involving a log-concave homogeneous weight on an open convex cone $Esubseteqmathbb{R}^n$. The perk of this proof is that it allows to characterize the extremal functions realizing the equality cases in the $L^p$-log-Sobolev inequality. The characterization of the equality cases is new for $pgeqn$ even in the unweighted setting and $E=mathbb{R}^n$. As an application, we provide a sharp weighted hypercontractivity estimate for the Hopf-Lax semigroup related to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, characterizing also the equality cases.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimal transportation (49Q22) Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Integration with respect to measures and other set functions (28A25)

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