Log-Sobolev inequalities: different roles of Ric and Hess

DOI10.1214/08-AOP444MaRDI QIDQ838010zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

diffusion semigroupLog-Sobolev inequalityRicci curvatureRiemannian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32) Diffusion processes (60J60)

Abstract: Let $P_t$ be the diffusion semigroup generated by $L:=Delta+ablaV$ on a complete connected Riemannian manifold with $operatornameRicge-(sigm{a}^{2}h{o}_o^2+c)$ for some constants $sigma,c>0$ and $h{o}_o$ the Riemannian distance to a fixed point. It is shown that $P_t$ is hypercontractive, or the log-Sobolev inequality holds for the associated Dirichlet form, provided $-operatorname{Hess}_{V}gedelta$ holds outside of a compact set for some constant $delta>(1+sqrt2)sigmasqrtd-1.$ This indicates, at least in finite dimensions, that $operatornameRic$ and $-operatorname{Hess}_V$ play quite different roles for the log-Sobolev inequality to hold. The supercontractivity and the ultracontractivity are also studied.

Review text

From the author's abstract: Let \(P_t\) be the diffusion semigroup generated by \(L:=\Delta +\nabla\Delta\) on a complete connected Riemannian manifold with \(\mathrm{Ric}\geq -(\sigma^2\rho_0^2+c)\) for some constants \(\sigma, c>0\) and \(\rho_0\) the Riemannian distance to a fixed point. It is shown that \(P_t\) is hypercontractive, or the log--Sobolev inequality holds for the associated Dirichlet form, provided \(-\mathrm{Hess}_V\geq \delta\) holds outside of a compact set for some constant \(\delta>(1+\sqrt 2)\sigma\sqrt{d-1}\). This indicates that \(\mathrm{Ric}\) and \(-\mathrm{Hess}_V\) play quite different roles for the log--Sobolev inequality to hold.

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