24th Nordic and 1st Franco-Nordic Congress of Mathematicians

Sobolev estimates in parabolic geometries

Bent Ørsted, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Denmark

Abstract
In spectral geometry a key role is played by various forms of Sobolev inequalities, and some of these lead to estimates with applications in other parts of mathematics, for example the logarithmic Sobolev inequality. In this talk we shall discuss replacing Riemannian geometry by for example CR geometry, the natural geometry on the boundary of domains in complex manifolds, and prove generalizations of the logarithmic Sobolev inequality to this setting.