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A variational approach to some transport inequalities

Probability 2016-04-27 v2

Abstract

We relate transport-entropy inequalities to the study of critical points of functionals defined on the space of probability measures. This approach leads in particular to a new proof of a result by Otto and Villani [43] showing that the logarithmic Sobolev inequality implies Talagrand's transport inequality.

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@article{arxiv.1508.07642,
  title  = {A variational approach to some transport inequalities},
  author = {Joaquin Fontbona and Nathael Gozlan and Jean-Francois Jabir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.07642},
  year   = {2016}
}
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