Logarithmic Sobolev trace inequalities

Logarithmic Sobolev Trace Inequality

A logarithmic Sobolev trace inequality is derived. Bounds on the best constant for this inequality from above and below are investigated using the sharp Sobolev inequality and the sharp logarithmic Sobolev inequality. Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities capture the spirit of classical Sobolev inequalities with the logarithm function replacing powers, and they can be considered as limiting cases of...

Modified logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and transportation inequalities

Sobolev Trace Inequalities

The existence of extremal functions for the Sobolev trace inequalities is studied using the concentration compactness theorem. The conjectured extremal, the function of conformal factor, is considered and is proved to be an actual extremal function with extra symmetry condition on functions. One of the limiting cases of the Sobolev trace inequalities is investigated and the best constant for th...

Weak logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and entropic convergence

In this paper we introduce and study a weakened form of logarithmic Sobolev inequalities in connection with various others functional inequalities (weak Poincaré inequalities, general Beckner inequalities...). We also discuss the quantitative behaviour of relative entropy along a symmetric diffusion semi-group. In particular, we exhibit an example where Poincaré inequality can not be used for d...

Modified Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities in Discrete Settings

Motivated by the rate at which the entropy of an ergodic Markov chain relative to its stationary distribution decays to zero, we study modified versions of logarithmic Sobolev inequalities in the discrete setting of finite Markov chains and graphs. These inequalities turn out to be weaker than the standard log-Sobolev inequality, but stronger than the Poincare’ (spectral gap) inequality. We sho...