A curved Brunn--Minkowski inequality on the discrete hypercube
Probability
2015-03-17 v3 Metric Geometry
Abstract
We compare two approaches to Ricci curvature on non-smooth spaces, in the case of the discrete hypercube . While the coarse Ricci curvature of the first author readily yields a positive value for curvature, the displacement convexity property of Lott, Sturm and the second author could not be fully implemented. Yet along the way we get new results of a combinatorial and probabilistic nature, including a curved Brunn--Minkowski inequality on the discrete hypercube.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1011.4779,
title = {A curved Brunn--Minkowski inequality on the discrete hypercube},
author = {Yann Ollivier and Cédric Villani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.4779},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Latest version: improved constants, minor corrections