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Graduate Analysis Seminar: Prekopa-Leindler inquality and the sharp Sobolev inequality

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
n/a
Location
347 Altgeld Hall
Date
Nov 19, 2021   2:00 pm  
Speaker
Daesung Kim, UIUC
Contact
Ryan McConnell
E-Mail
ryanm12@illinois.edu
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Prekopa-Leindler inequality is a functional version of Brunn-Minkowski inequality, and has a close relation to many interesting inequalities. We discuss the proof of Prekopa-Leindler inequality using optimal transport technique. As an application, we derive the sharp Sobolev inequality. 

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