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A reverse log-Sobolev inequality in the Segal-Bargmann space

Authors :
Stephen Bruce Sontz
Source :
Journal of Mathematical Physics. 40:1677-1695
Publication Year :
1999
Publisher :
AIP Publishing, 1999.

Abstract

This article is based on recent results of the author on the properties of the reproducing kernel of the Segal-Bargmann space. Those results are used here to demonstrate a family of energy-entropy inequalities in the Segal-Bargmann space. In some cases this is a log-Sobolev inequality while in other cases this is actually a reverse log-Sobolev inequality, which means that the energy term is bounded above by the entropy term, plus a norm term. This implies that in the Segal-Bargmann space the entropy is finite if and only if the energy is finite. Applications of this result to the Segal-Bargmann transform are given as well as a discussion of its possible relation with reverse hypercontractivity. It should be noted that all of the results of this article are proved without using hypercontractivity estimates.

Details

ISSN :
10897658 and 00222488
Volume :
40
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Accession number :
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