Log-Sobolev inequalities: different roles of Ric and Hess

DOI10.1214/08-AOP444zbMath1187.60061arXiv0712.3143MaRDI QIDQ838010

Feng-Yu Wang

Publication date: 21 August 2009

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3143

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifold; Ricci curvature; diffusion semigroup; Log-Sobolev inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60J60: Diffusion processes

58J32: Boundary value problems on manifolds

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