Functional Inequalities for Empty Essential Spectrum

Abstract In terms of the equivalence of Poincare inequality and the existence of spectral gap, the super-Poincare inequality is suggested in the paper for the study of essential spectrum. It is proved for symmetric diffusions that, such an inequality is equivalent to empty essential spectrum of the corresponding diffusion operator. This inequality recovers known Sobolev and Nash type ones. It is also equivalent to an isoperimetric inequality provided the curvature of the operator is bounded from below. Some results are also proved for a more general setting including symmetric jump processes. Moreover, estimates of inequality constants are also presented, which lead to a proof of a result on ultracontractivity suggested recently by D. Stroock. Finally, concentration of reference measures for super-Poincare inequalities is studied, the resulting estimates extend previous ones for Poincare and log-Sobolev inequalities.

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