On the Bakry-Emery criterion for linear diffusions and weighted porous media equations

dc.creatorDolbeault, Jean
dc.creatorNazaret, Bruno
dc.creatorSavaré, Giuseppe
dc.date2007-12-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:49:04Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T08:49:04Z
dc.descriptionThe goal of this paper is to give a non-local sufficient condition for generalized Poincaré inequalities, which extends the well-known Bakry-Emery condition. Such generalized Poincaré inequalities have been introduced by W. Beckner in the gaussian case and provide, along the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck flow, the exponential decay of some generalized entropies which interpolate between the $L^2$ norm and the usual entropy. Our criterion improves on results which, for instance, can be deduced from the Bakry-Emery criterion and Holley-Stroock type perturbation results. In a second step, we apply the same strategy to non-linear equations of porous media type. This provides new interpolation inequalities and decay estimates for the solutions of the evolution problem. The criterion is again a non-local condition based on the positivity of the lowest eigenvalue of a Schrödinger operator. In both cases, we relate the Fisher information with its time derivative. Since the resulting criterion is non-local, it is better adapted to potentials with, for instance, a non-quadratic growth at infinity, or to unbounded perturbations of the potential.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2211
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2211
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/144168
dc.subjectAnalysis of PDEs
dc.subject35B40; 35K55; 39B62; 35J10; 35K20; 35K65
dc.titleOn the Bakry-Emery criterion for linear diffusions and weighted porous media equations
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