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The Log-Sobolev Inequality on Loop Space over a Compact Riemannian Manifold

✍ Scribed by Fu-Zhou Gong; Zhi-Ming Ma


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
371 KB
Volume
157
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-1236

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✦ Synopsis


We obtain a log-Sobolev inequality with a neat and explicit potential for the gradient on a based loop space over a compact Riemannian manifold. The potential term relies only on the curvature of the manifold and the Hessian of the heat kernel, and is L p -integrable for all p 1. The log-Sobolev inequality is derived by a martingale representation theorem for the differentiable functions on loop space, which is a variation of the Clark Ocone Haussmann formula.

1998 Academic Press conditional expectation of certain Wiener functionals. For details see . Using methods different from , in the present paper we also extend Gross's result to based loop space over a compact Riemannian manifold. We establish a log-Sobolev inequality with an added potential which depends article no.