Download or read book Functional Inequalities Markov Semigroups and Spectral Theory written by Fengyu Wang and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the functional inequalities are introduced to describe: (i) the spectrum of the generator: the essential and discrete spectrums, high order eigenvalues, the principle eigenvalue, and the spectral gap; (ii) the semigroup properties: the uniform intergrability, the compactness, the convergence rate, and the existence of density; (iii) the reference measure and the intrinsic metric: the concentration, the isoperimetic inequality, and the transportation cost inequality.