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We discuss situations where perturbing a probability measure on $\mathbb{R}^n$ does not deteriorate its Poincar\'e constant by much. A particular example is the symmetric exponential measure in $\mathbb{R}^n$, even log-concave perturbations…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Franck Barthe , Bo'az Klartag

On a convex bounded open set, we prove that Poincar\'e-Sobolev constants for functions vanishing at the boundary can be bounded from below in terms of the norm of the distance function in a suitable Lebesgue space. This generalizes a result…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Francesca Prinari , Anna Chiara Zagati

We establish local higher integrability and differentiability results for minimizers of variational integrals $$ \mathfrak{F}(v,\Omega) = \int_{\Omega} /! F(Dv(x)) \, dx $$ over $W^{1,p}$--Sobolev mappings $u \colon \Omega \subset {\mathbb…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Menita Carozza , Jan Kristensen , Antonia Passarelli di Napoli

The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first prove a weighted Sobolev inequality and part of a weighted Morrey's inequality, where the weights are a power of the mean curvature of the level sets of the function appearing in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-14 Xavier Cabre , Manel Sanchon

We obtain a new proof of Bobkov's lower bound on the first positive eigenvalue of the (negative) Neumann Laplacian (or equivalently, the Cheeger constant) on a bounded convex domain $K$ in Euclidean space. Our proof avoids employing the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Emanuel Milman

We prove a sharp upper bound on convex domains, in terms of the diameter alone, of the best constant in a class of weighted Poincar\'e inequalities. The key point is the study of an optimal weighted Wirtinger inequality.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-07 Vincenzo Ferone , Carlo Nitsch , Cristina Trombetti

We show that global lower bounds to the mode volume of a dielectric resonator can be computed via Lagrangian duality. State-of-the-art designs rely on sharp tips, but such structures appear to be highly sub-optimal at nanometer-scale…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-01 Qingqing Zhao , Lang Zhang , Owen D. Miller

We prove the attainability of the best constant in the fractional Hardy--Sobolev inequality with boundary singularity for the Spectral Dirichlet Laplacian. The main assumption is the average concavity of the boundary at the origin.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Nikita Ustinov

We give simple new proofs of two well-known results for the Schr\"odinger operator: first, the Brunn--Minkowski inequality for Dirichlet eigenvalues and, second, the log-concavity of the first Dirichlet eigenfunction. Our proof of the first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Paul Bryan , Julie Clutterbuck , Cale Rankin

In this work, we obtain an existence of nontrivial solutions to a minimization problem involving a fractional Hardy-Sobolev type inequality in the case of inner singularity. Precisely, for $\lambda>0$ we analyze the attainability of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Antonella Ritorto

In this paper, we prove that the first (positive) Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator \[ L(u)=\Delta u-(\nabla u,x), \] is strongly log-concave if the domain is bounded and convex, which improves the conclusion in [6].…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Lei Qin

We prove the sharp inequality \[ J(\Omega) := \frac{\lambda_1(\Omega)}{h_1(\Omega)^2} < \frac{\pi^2}{4},\] where $\Omega$ is any planar, convex set, $\lambda_1(\Omega)$ is the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian under Dirichlet boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Enea Parini

We prove a two-sided estimate on the sharp $L^p$ Poincar\'e constant of a general open set, in terms of a capacitary variant of its inradius. This extends a result by Maz'ya and Shubin, originally devised for the case $p=2$, in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Francesco Bozzola , Lorenzo Brasco

We prove several discrete Gagliardo-Nirenberg-Sobolev and Poincar\'e-Sobolev inequalities for some approximations with arbitrary boundary values on finite volume meshes. The keypoint of our approach is to use the continuous embedding of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-16 Marianne Bessemoulin-Chatard , Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Francis Filbet

We develop a comprehensive study on sharp potential type Riemannian Sobolev inequalities of order 2 by means of a local geometric Sobolev inequality of same kind and suitable De Giorgi-Nash-Moser estimates. In particular we discuss…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-29 Ezequiel R. Barbosa , Marcos Montenegro

We study eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian on a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\RR^n$ with piecewise smooth boundary. We bound the distance between an arbitrary parameter $E > 0$ and the spectrum $\{E_j \}$ in terms of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-06-21 A. H. Barnett , Andrew Hassell

We establish formulae for the derivative of the Poincar\'e constant of Gibbs measures on both compact domains and all of $\R^d$. As an application, we show that if the (not necessarily convex) Hamiltonian is an increasing function, then the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Julian Sieber

For a fixed cusp form $\pi$ on $\operatorname{GL}_3(\mathbb{Z})$ and a varying Dirichlet character $\chi$ of prime conductor $q$, we prove that the subconvex bound \[ L(\pi \otimes \chi, \tfrac{1}{2}) \ll q^{3/4 - \delta} \] holds for any…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Roman Holowinsky , Paul D. Nelson

This paper provides a discrete Poincar\'e inequality in $n$ space dimensions on a simplex $K$ with explicit constants. This inequality bounds the norm of the piecewise derivative of functions with integral mean zero on $K$ and all integrals…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Carsten Carstensen , Friederike Hellwig

In this paper, the $q$-th dual curvature measure is extended to convex functions and the associated Minkowski problem is posed. A special case includes the $q$-th dual curvature measure of convex bodies which defined by Huang, Lutwak, Yang…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Niufa Fang , Jiazu Zhou