Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequalities via fast diffusion flows.

We give a simple proof of the λ = d - 2 cases of the sharp Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality for d≥3, and the sharp Logarithmic Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality for d = 2 via a monotone flow governed by the fast diffusion equation.

Non-commutative Calculus, Optimal Transport and Functional Inequalities in Dissipative Quantum Systems.

We study dynamical optimal transport metrics between density matrices associated to symmetric Dirichlet forms on finite-dimensional C ∗ -algebras. Our setting covers arbitrary skew-derivations and it provides a unified framework that simultaneously generalizes recently constructed transport metrics for Markov chains, Lindblad equations, and the Fermi Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup. We develop a non-nommutative differential calculus that allows us to obtain non-commutative Ricci curvature bounds, logarithmic Sobolev inequalities, transport-entropy inequalities, and spectral gap estimates.