Weak curvature conditions and functional inequalities

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 311-333

  Lott, John ^a   Villani, Cédric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNITÉ DE MATHÉMATIQUES PURES ET APPLIQUÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Metric measure spaces; Poincar inequality; Ricci curvature; Sobolev inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847377614     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: 10960783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2006.10.018     Document Type: Article

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