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On fine properties of mixtures with respect to concentration of measure and Sobolev type inequalities

Djalil Chafaï, Florent Malrieu (2010)

Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques

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Mixtures are convex combinations of laws. Despite this simple definition, a mixture can be far more subtle than its mixed components. For instance, mixing gaussian laws may produce a potential with multiple deep wells. We study in the present work fine properties of mixtures with respect to concentration of measure and Sobolev type functional inequalities. We provide sharp Laplace bounds for Lipschitz functions in the case of generic mixtures, involving a transportation cost diameter...

From the Prékopa-Leindler inequality to modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality

Ivan Gentil (2008)

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques

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We develop in this paper an improvement of the method given by S. Bobkov and M. Ledoux in [BL00]. Using the Prékopa-Leindler inequality, we prove a modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality adapted for all measures on ℝ n , with a strictly convex and super-linear potential. This inequality implies modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality, developed in [GGM05, GGM07], for all uniformly strictly convex potential as well as the Euclidean logarithmic Sobolev inequality.

Trends to equilibrium in total variation distance

Patrick Cattiaux, Arnaud Guillin (2009)

Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques

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This paper presents different approaches, based on functional inequalities, to study the speed of convergence in total variation distance of ergodic diffusion processes with initial law satisfying a given integrability condition. To this end, we give a general upper bound “à la Pinsker” enabling us to study our problem firstly via usual functional inequalities (Poincaré inequality, weak Poincaré,…) and truncation procedure, and secondly through the introduction of new functional inequalities...

Poincaré inequalities and hitting times

Patrick Cattiaux, Arnaud Guillin, Pierre André Zitt (2013)

Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques

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Equivalence of the spectral gap, exponential integrability of hitting times and Lyapunov conditions is well known. We give here the correspondence (with quantitative results) for reversible diffusion processes. As a consequence, we generalize results of Bobkov in the one dimensional case on the value of the Poincaré constant for log-concave measures to superlinear potentials. Finally, we study various functional inequalities under different hitting times integrability conditions (polynomial,…)....