Non-commutative Nash inequalities

A set of functional inequalities - called Nash inequalities - are introduced and analyzed in the context of quantum Markov process mixing. The basic theory of Nash inequalities is extended to the setting of non-commutative Lp spaces, where their relationship to Poincare and log-Sobolev inequalities are fleshed out. We prove Nash inequalities for a number of unital reversible semigroups.