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A Bakry-\'Emery criterion for weighted contractivity and $L^2$-Hardy inequalities

Functional Analysis 2025-08-12 v3 Analysis of PDEs Probability

Abstract

We show a symmetric Markov diffusion semigroup satisfies a weighted contractivity condition if and only if a L2L^2-Hardy inequality holds, and we give a Bakry-\'Emery type criterion for the former. We then give some applications.

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@article{arxiv.2209.08304,
  title  = {A Bakry-\'Emery criterion for weighted contractivity and $L^2$-Hardy inequalities},
  author = {Yaozhong W. Qiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.08304},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

23 pages, changed title, some changes made according to referee recommendations, to appear in Commun. Contemp. Math