Bakry, Dominique; Emery, Michel Inégalités de Sobolev pour un semi-groupe symétrique. (Sobolev inequalities for a symmetric semi-group). (French) Zbl 0579.60079 C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I 301, 411-413 (1985). Summary: We use the ”iterated gradient” to define the notions of dimension and Ricci curvature associated to a diffusion semi-group. In terms of both these objects, we give a sufficient condition for the generator of a symmetric semi-group to satisfy a Sobolev inequality. Cited in 4 ReviewsCited in 16 Documents MSC: 60J60 Diffusion processes 58J65 Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds Keywords:Ricci curvature; diffusion semi-group; Sobolev inequality × Cite Format Result Cite Review PDF