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Fractional Poincar\'e inequalities for general measures

Analysis of PDEs 2010-06-30 v2 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We prove a fractional version of Poincar\'e inequalities in the context of Rn\R^n endowed with a fairly general measure. Namely we prove a control of an L2L^2 norm by a non local quantity, which plays the role of the gradient in the standard Poincar\'e inequality. The assumption on the measure is the fact that it satisfies the classical Poincar\'e inequality, so that our result is an improvement of the latter inequality. Moreover we also quantify the tightness at infinity provided by the control on the fractional derivative in terms of a weight growing at infinity. The proof goes through the introduction of the generator of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup and some careful estimates of its powers. To our knowledge this is the first proof of fractional Poincar\'e inequality for measures more general than L\'evy measures.

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@article{arxiv.0911.4563,
  title  = {Fractional Poincar\'e inequalities for general measures},
  author = {Clément Mouhot and Emmanuel Russ and Yannick Sire},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.4563},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

18 pages. Version 2 includes corrections of 2 misprints and an additionnal reference [BBCG08] providing a weaker condition (1.2) (none of these corrections modifies the main result nor its proof). Thanks to Arnaud Guillin for pointing out these corrections

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