Improved Gagliardo-Nirenberg-Sobolev inequalities on manifolds with positive curvature

摘要

We apply the method of [J. Demange, From porous media equation to generalized Sobolev inequalities on a Riemannian manifold, preprint, http://www.lsp.ups-tlse.fr/Fp/Demange/, 2004] and [J. Demange, Porous Media equation and Sobolev inequalities under negative curvature, preprint, http://www.Isp.ups-tlse.fr/Fp/Demange/, 2004], based on the curvature-dimension criterion and the study of Porous Media equation, to the case of a manifold M with strictly positive Ricci curvature. This gives a new way to prove classical Sobolev inequalities on M. Moreover, this enables to improve non-critical Sobolev inequalities as well. As an application, we study the rate of convergence of the solutions of the Porous Media equation to the equilibrium. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.