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Improved Beckner–Sobolev Inequalities on Kähler Manifolds

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We prove new Beckner–Sobolev type inequalities on compact Kähler manifolds with positive Ricci curvature. As an application, we obtain a diameter upper bound that improves the Bonnet–Myers bound.

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It is our pleasure to thank Xiaodong Wang and Jiaping Wang for useful discussions and for their interest in this work. The first author was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-1660031 and the Simons Foundation. The second author was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-1506220.

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Baudoin, F., Munteanu, O. Improved Beckner–Sobolev Inequalities on Kähler Manifolds. J Geom Anal 31, 100–125 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-019-00252-w

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