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shuhalo
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From a higher level point of view, the Poincare inequality is about comparing seminorms of functions. For example, it is reasonable to expect something like:

$$\int_\Omega ( u - \overline u )^p dx \leq C \int_\Omega | D u |^p dx$$

Your suggested inequality looks like trying to compare two scalar products, except it has been modified on the right-hand side to be positive.

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