Sharp Beckner's Inequalities for Axially Symmetric Functions on $\mathbb{S}^N$

arXiv:2608.11126 2026 Regularization 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Sep 1, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper supplies a sharp functional inequality linking a spherical logarithmic moment-generating term to the quadratic energy of a high-order conformally invariant operator. Its transferable asset is the combination of a spectral Sobolev penalty, an exponential normalization term, and a geometric center-of-mass constraint with an explicit nonnegativity guarantee. A practical adaptation is a regularizer for axially symmetric spherical logits or score fields, where the network output is expanded in Gegenbauer modes and high-frequency energy is penalized while controlling the log-partition of the field. This is most plausible for spherical classification, directional diffusion, or neural fields rather than generic Euclidean transformers.

Ideas from this paper

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Beckner spectral logit regularizer

Represent an axially symmetric neural field on the sphere as a scalar function of latitude and regularize it with the paper's Paneitz energy together with its exponential log-partition term. Enforce a center-of-mass condition on the normalized exponential density so that the regularizer cannot be reduced by simply translating the field toward a first spherical-harmonic mode.

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Paper: Sharp Beckner's Inequalities for Axially Symmetric Functions on $\mathbb{S}^N$ arXiv:2608.11126