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Rigidity of some functional inequalities on RCD spaces

Functional Analysis 2021-08-17 v3 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We study the cases of equality and prove a rigidity theorem concerning the 1-Bakry-\'Emery inequality. As an application, we prove the rigidity of the Gaussian isoperimetric inequality, the logarithmic Sobolev inequality and the Poincar\'e inequality in the setting of RCD(K,){\rm RCD}(K, \infty) metric measure spaces. This unifies and extends to the non-smooth setting the results of Carlen-Kerce, Morgan, Bouyrie, Ohta-Takatsu, Cheng-Zhou. Examples of non-smooth spaces fitting our setting are measured-Gromov Hausdorff limits of Riemannian manifolds with uniform Ricci curvature lower bound, and Alexandrov spaces with curvature lower bound. Some results including the rigidity of Φ\Phi-entropy inequalities, the rigidity of the 1-Bakry-\'Emery inequality are of independent interest even in the smooth setting.

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@article{arxiv.2001.07930,
  title  = {Rigidity of some functional inequalities on RCD spaces},
  author = {Bang-Xian Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.07930},
  year   = {2021}
}
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