Large scale Sobolev inequalities on metric measure spaces and applications

dc.creatorTessera, Romain
dc.date2007-02-25
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:48:49Z
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dc.descriptionWe introduce a notion of "gradient at a given scale" of functions defined on a metric measure space. We then use it to define Sobolev inequalities at large scale and we prove their invariance under large-scale equivalence (maps that generalize the quasi-isometries). We prove that for a Riemmanian manifold satisfying a local Poincare inequality, our notion of Sobolev inequalities at large scale is equivalent to its classical version. These notions provide a natural and efficient point of view to study the relations between the large time on-diagonal behavior of random walks and the isoperimetry of the space. Specializing our main result to locally compact groups, we obtain that the L^p-isoperimetric profile, for every p \in [1,\infty] is invariant under quasi-isometry between amenable unimodular compactly generated locally compact groups. A qualitative application of this new approach is a very general characterization of the existence of a spectral gap on a quasi-transitive measure space X, providing a natural point of view to understand this phenomenon.
dc.description43 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702751
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702751
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/124632
dc.subjectMetric Geometry
dc.subjectFunctional Analysis
dc.subject51F99; 43A85
dc.titleLarge scale Sobolev inequalities on metric measure spaces and applications
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