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. 1992 Jun 1;89(11):4816–4819. doi: 10.1073/pnas.89.11.4816

Sobolev inequalities, the Poisson semigroup, and analysis on the sphere Sn.

W Beckner 1
PMCID: PMC49178  PMID: 11607294

Abstract

Hypercontractive estimates are obtained for the Poisson semigroup on Lp(Sn). Such estimates are determined by a sharp logarithmic Sobolev inequality that relates the entropy of a function on Sn to its smoothness.

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