Bennett, Jonathan; Carbery, Anthony; Christ, Michael; Tao, Terence The Brascamp-Lieb inequalities: Finiteness, structure and extremals. (English) Zbl 1132.26006 Geom. Funct. Anal. 17(2007), No. 5, 1343-1415 (2008). Summary: We consider the Brascamp-Lieb inequalities concerning multilinear integrals of products of functions in several dimensions. We give a complete treatment of the issues of finiteness of the constant, and of the existence and uniqueness of centred Gaussian extremals. For arbitrary extremals we completely address the issue of existence, and partly address the issue of uniqueness. We also analyse the inequalities from a structural perspective. Our main tool is a monotonicity formula for positive solutions to heat equations in linear and multilinear settings, which was first used in this type of setting by E. A. Carlen, E. H. Lieb, and M. Loss [J. Geom. Anal. 14, No. 3, 487–520 (2004; Zbl 1056.43002)]. In that paper, the heat flow method was used to obtain the rank-one case of Lieb’s fundamental theorem concerning exhaustion by Gaussians; we extend the technique to the higher-rank case, giving two new proofs of the general-rank case of Lieb’s theorem. Cited in 5 ReviewsCited in 72 Documents MSC: 26D15 Inequalities for sums, series and integrals 15A45 Miscellaneous inequalities involving matrices 52A40 Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry 35K05 Heat equation 44A35 Convolution as an integral transform 35K85 Unilateral problems for linear parabolic equations and variational inequalities with linear parabolic operators Citations:Zbl 1056.43002 PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{J. Bennett} et al., Geom. Funct. Anal. 17, No. 5, 1343--1415 (2008; Zbl 1132.26006) Full Text: DOI arXiv OpenURL