TY - JOUR
T1 - A sub-Riemannian curvature-dimension inequality, volume doubling property and the Poincaré inequality
AU - Baudoin, Fabrice
AU - Bonnefont, Michel
AU - Garofalo, Nicola
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - Let M be a smooth connected manifold endowed with a smooth measure μ and a smooth locally subelliptic diffusion operator L satisfying L1 = 0, and which is symmetric with respect to μ. We show that if L satisfies, with a non negative curvature parameter, the generalized curvature inequality introduced by the first and third named authors in http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3590, then the following properties hold: • The volume doubling property; • The Poincaré inequality; • The parabolic Harnack inequality. The key ingredient is the study of dimension dependent reverse log-Sobolev inequalities for the heat semigroup and corresponding non-linear reverse Harnack type inequalities. Our results apply in particular to all Sasakian manifolds whose horizontal Webster-Tanaka-Ricci curvature is nonnegative, all Carnot groups of step two, and to wide subclasses of principal bundles over Riemannian manifolds whose Ricci curvature is nonnegative.
AB - Let M be a smooth connected manifold endowed with a smooth measure μ and a smooth locally subelliptic diffusion operator L satisfying L1 = 0, and which is symmetric with respect to μ. We show that if L satisfies, with a non negative curvature parameter, the generalized curvature inequality introduced by the first and third named authors in http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3590, then the following properties hold: • The volume doubling property; • The Poincaré inequality; • The parabolic Harnack inequality. The key ingredient is the study of dimension dependent reverse log-Sobolev inequalities for the heat semigroup and corresponding non-linear reverse Harnack type inequalities. Our results apply in particular to all Sasakian manifolds whose horizontal Webster-Tanaka-Ricci curvature is nonnegative, all Carnot groups of step two, and to wide subclasses of principal bundles over Riemannian manifolds whose Ricci curvature is nonnegative.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84897597016
U2 - 10.1007/s00208-013-0961-y
DO - 10.1007/s00208-013-0961-y
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84897597016
SN - 0025-5831
VL - 358
SP - 833
EP - 860
JO - Mathematische Annalen
JF - Mathematische Annalen
IS - 3-4
ER -