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Curvature and transport inequalities for Markov chains in discrete spaces

Probability 2015-09-25 v1 Functional Analysis Metric Geometry

Abstract

We study various transport-information inequalities under three different notions of Ricci curvature in the discrete setting: the curvature-dimension condition of Bakry and \'Emery, the exponential curvature-dimension condition of Bauer \textit{et al.} and the coarse Ricci curvature of Ollivier. We prove that under a curvature-dimension condition or coarse Ricci curvature condition, an L1L_1 transport-information inequality holds; while under an exponential curvature-dimension condition, some weak-transport information inequalities hold. As an application, we establish a Bonnet-Meyer's theorem under the curvature-dimension condition CD(κ,)(\kappa,\infty) of Bakry and \'Emery.

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@article{arxiv.1509.07160,
  title  = {Curvature and transport inequalities for Markov chains in discrete spaces},
  author = {Max Fathi and Yan Shu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.07160},
  year   = {2015}
}

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26 pages. Comments are welcome