Coercive Inequalities on Metric Measure Spaces

Abstract

We study coercive inequalities on finite dimensional metric spaces with probability measures which do not have volume doubling property. This class of inequalities includes Poincaré and Log-Sobolev inequality. Our main result is proof of Log-Sobolev inequality on Heisenberg group equipped with either heat kernel measure or "gaussian" density build from optimal control distance. As intermediate results we prove so called U-bounds.