Semigroup proofs of the isoperimetric inequality in Euclidean and Gauss space
Semigroup proofs of the isoperimetric inequality in Euclidean and Gauss space
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欧几里德空间和高斯空间中等周不等式的半群证明
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1994
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M. Ledoux
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M. Ledoux
. — This paper is an exposition of some of the semigroup tools which may be used to investigate the isoperimetric inequality in Euclidean and Gauss space. Inspired by the work of N. Varopoulos in his functional approach to isoperimetric inequalities on groups and manifolds, we will observe here, in particular, that the classical isoperimetric inequality in R n is equivalent to saying that the L 2 -norm of the heat semigroup acting on characteristic functions of sets increases under isoperimetric rearrangement. We then check the corresponding property in Gauss space and, following the approach of B. Maurey and G. Pisier to the concentration of measure phenomenon, we survey how the various properties of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup such as the commutation property or hypercontractivity can yield in a simple way both the concentration phenomenon and (a form of) the isoperimetric inequality itself for Gauss measures.