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A sharp log-Sobolev inequality for the multislice

Probability 2020-04-14 v1 Discrete Mathematics Combinatorics

Abstract

We determine the log-Sobolev constant of the multi-urn Bernoulli-Laplace diffusion model with arbitrary parameters, up to a small universal multiplicative constant. Our result extends a classical estimate of Lee and Yau (1998) and confirms a conjecture of Filmus, O'Donnell and Wu (2018). Among other applications, we completely quantify the "small-set expansion" phenomenon on the multislice, and obtain sharp mixing-time estimates for the colored exclusion process on various graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2004.05833,
  title  = {A sharp log-Sobolev inequality for the multislice},
  author = {Justin Salez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.05833},
  year   = {2020}
}

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23 pages, comments welcome

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