Functional Inequalities on sub-Riemannian manifolds via QCD

Seminar
Speaker
Prof. Emanuel Milman, Technion
Date
27/01/2020 - 15:10 - 14:00Add to Calendar 2020-01-27 14:00:00 2020-01-27 15:10:00 Functional Inequalities on sub-Riemannian manifolds via QCD We are interested in obtaining Poincar\’e and log-Sobolev inequalities on domains in sub-Riemannian manifolds (equipped with their natural sub-Riemannian metric and volume measure). It is well-known that strictly sub-Riemannian manifolds do not satisfy any type of Curvature-Dimension condition CD(K,N), introduced by Lott-Sturm-Villani some 15 years ago, so we must follow a different path. We show that while ideal (strictly) sub-Riemannian manifolds do not satisfy any type of CD condition, they do satisfy a quasi-convex relaxation thereof, which we name QCD(Q,K,N). As a consequence, these spaces satisfy numerous functional inequalities with exactly the same quantitative dependence (up to a factor of Q) as their CD counterparts. We achieve this by extending the localization paradigm to completely general interpolation inequalities, and a one-dimensional comparison of QCD densities with their “CD upper envelope”.  We thus obtain the best known quantitative estimates for (say) the L^p-Poincar\’e and log-Sobolev inequalities on domains in the ideal sub-Riemannian setting, which in particular are independent of the topological dimension. For instance, the classical Li-Yau / Zhong-Yang spectral-gap estimate holds on all Heisenberg groups of arbitrary dimension up to a factor of 4. No prior knowledge will be assumed, and we will (hopefully) explain all of the above notions during the talk. 2nd floor Colloquium Room, Building 216 אוניברסיטת בר-אילן - Department of Mathematics mathoffice@math.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public
Place
2nd floor Colloquium Room, Building 216
Abstract

We are interested in obtaining Poincar\’e and log-Sobolev inequalities on domains in sub-Riemannian manifolds
(equipped with their natural sub-Riemannian metric and volume measure).
It is well-known that strictly sub-Riemannian manifolds do not satisfy any type of Curvature-Dimension condition
CD(K,N), introduced by Lott-Sturm-Villani some 15 years ago, so we must follow a different path. We show that
while ideal (strictly) sub-Riemannian manifolds do not satisfy any type of CD condition, they do satisfy a
quasi-convex relaxation thereof, which we name QCD(Q,K,N). As a consequence, these spaces satisfy numerous
functional inequalities with exactly the same quantitative dependence (up to a factor of Q) as their CD
counterparts. We achieve this by extending the localization paradigm to completely general interpolation
inequalities, and a one-dimensional comparison of QCD densities with their “CD upper envelope”.  We thus obtain
the best known quantitative estimates for (say) the L^p-Poincar\’e and log-Sobolev inequalities on domains in
the ideal sub-Riemannian setting, which in particular are independent of the topological dimension. For instance,
the classical Li-Yau / Zhong-Yang spectral-gap estimate holds on all Heisenberg groups of arbitrary dimension up
to a factor of 4.
No prior knowledge will be assumed, and we will (hopefully) explain all of the above notions during the talk.

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