The Logarithmic Sobolev Inequality for a Submanifold in Manifolds with Nonnegative Sectional Curvature

Abstract

The authors prove a sharp logarithmic Sobolev inequality which holds for compact submanifolds without boundary in Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature of arbitrary dimension and codimension. Like the Michael-Simon Sobolev inequality, this inequality includes a term involving the mean curvature. This extends a recent result of Brendle with Euclidean setting.

Keywords

Logarithmic Sobolev inequality / Nonnegative sectional curvature / Submanifold

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