We prove here that the Poincaré-Sobolev pointwise inequalities for the relative rearrangement can be considered as the root of a great number of inequalities in various sets not necessarily vector spaces. In particular, new interpolation inequalities can be derived.

We consider the half-linear differential equation of the form $$\left(p\left(t\right)\right|x^{\text{'}}{|}^{\alpha }\mathrm{sgn}{x}^{\text{'}}{)}^{\text{'}}+q\left(t\right){\left|x\right|}^{\alpha }\mathrm{sgn}x=0,t\ge t_0,$$ under the assumption that $p{\left(t\right)}^{-1/\alpha }$ is integrable on $[t_0,\infty )$. It is shown that if a certain condition is satisfied, then the above equation has a pair of nonoscillatory solutions with specific asymptotic behavior as $t\to \infty$.

Let φ:ℝ² → ℝ be a homogeneous polynomial function of degree m ≥ 2, let Σ = (x,φ(x)): |x| ≤ 1 and let σ be the Borel measure on Σ defined by $\sigma \left(A\right)={\int }_B{\chi }_A(x,\phi \left(x\right))dx$ where B is the unit open ball in ℝ² and dx denotes the Lebesgue measure on ℝ². We show that the composition of the Fourier transform in ℝ³ followed by restriction to Σ defines a bounded operator from $L^p\left(ℝ³\right)$ to $L^q(\Sigma ,d\sigma )$ for certain p,q. For m ≥ 6 the results are sharp except for some border points.

We prove that under the Gaussian measure, half-spaces are uniquely the most noise stable sets. We also prove a quantitative version of uniqueness, showing that a set which is almost optimally noise stable must be close to a half-space. This extends a theorem of Borell, who proved the same result but without uniqueness, and it also answers a question of Ledoux, who asked whether it was possible to prove Borell’s theorem using a direct semigroup argument. Our quantitative uniqueness result has various...