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Convex Sobolev inequalities related to unbalanced optimal transport

Functional Analysis 2019-04-09 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We study the behaviour of various Lyapunov functionals (relative entropies) along the solutions of a family of nonlinear drift-diffusion-reaction equations coming from statistical mechanics and population dynamics. These equations can be viewed as gradient flows over the space of Radon measures equipped with the Hellinger-Kantorovich distance. The driving functionals of the gradient flows are not assumed to be geodesically convex or semi-convex. We prove new isoperimetric-type functional inequalities, allowing us to control the relative entropies by their productions, which yields the exponential decay of the relative entropies.

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@article{arxiv.1904.04112,
  title  = {Convex Sobolev inequalities related to unbalanced optimal transport},
  author = {Stanislav Kondratyev and Dmitry Vorotnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.04112},
  year   = {2019}
}