Functional Inequalities for Empty Essential Spectrum

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 219-245

  Wang, Feng Yu ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Super Poincar inequality; F Sobolev inequality; Nash type inequality; isoperimetric inequality; essential spectrum; ultracontractivity; concentration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000593993     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfan.1999.3516     Document Type: Article

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