A note on the Poincaré inequality for Lipschitz vector fields of step two
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Abstract:
We provide a Poincaré inequality for families of Lipschitz continuous vector fields satisfying a Hörmander-type condition of step two.References
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Additional Information
- Maria Manfredini
- Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bologna, Piazza Porta S. Donato 5, 40126 Bologna, Italy
- MR Author ID: 321628
- Email: manfredi@dm.unibo.it
- Received by editor(s): August 30, 2008
- Published electronically: September 16, 2009
- Communicated by: Matthew J. Gursky
- © Copyright 2009
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 138 (2010), 567-575
- MSC (2000): Primary 35A08, 35H20, 43A80; Secondary 35A17, 35J70
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-09-10054-0
- MathSciNet review: 2557174