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Improving constant in end-point Poincar\'e inequality on Hamming cube

Probability 2019-06-04 v5 Analysis of PDEs Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We improve the constant π2\frac{\pi}{2} in L1L^1-Poincar\'e inequality on Hamming cube. For Gaussian space the sharp constant in L1L^1 inequality is known, and it is π2\sqrt{\frac{\pi}{2}}. For Hamming cube the sharp constant is not known, and π2\sqrt{\frac{\pi}{2}} gives an estimate from below for this sharp constant. On the other hand, L. Ben Efraim and F. Lust-Piquard have shown an estimate from above: C1π2C_1\le \frac{\pi}{2}. There are at least two other independent proofs of the same estimate from above (we write down them in this note). Since those proofs are very different from the proof of Ben Efraim and Lust-Piquard but gave the same constant, that might have indicated that constant is sharp. But here we give a better estimate from above, showing that C1C_1 is strictly smaller than π2\frac{\pi}{2}. It is still not clear whether C1>π2C_1> \sqrt{\frac{\pi}{2}}. We discuss this circle of questions and the computer experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1811.05584,
  title  = {Improving constant in end-point Poincar\'e inequality on Hamming cube},
  author = {Paata Ivanisvili and Dong Li and Ramon van Handel and Alexander Volberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.05584},
  year   = {2019}
}

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24 pages, 1 figure

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