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An Asymmetric Affine P\'olya--Szeg\"o Principle

Functional Analysis 2009-08-15 v4 Differential Geometry

Abstract

An affine rearrangement inequality is established which strengthens and implies the recently obtained affine P\'olya--Szeg\"o symmetrization principle for functions on Rn\mathbb{R}^n. Several applications of this new inequality are derived. In particular, a sharp affine logarithmic Sobolev inequality is established which is stronger than its classical Euclidean counterpart.

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@article{arxiv.0908.1557,
  title  = {An Asymmetric Affine P\'olya--Szeg\"o Principle},
  author = {Christoph Haberl and Franz E. Schuster and Jie Xiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.1557},
  year   = {2009}
}

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20 pages