Balls have the worst best Sobolev inequalities

Journal of Geometric Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 83-121

  Maggi, Francesco ^a   Villani, Cédric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNITÉ DE MATHÉMATIQUES PURES ET APPLIQUÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Isoperimetric inequality; mass transportation; Sobolev inequality; trace

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744458381     PISSN: 10506926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02921860     Document Type: Article

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