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Exponential decay of R\'enyi divergence under Fokker-Planck equations

Analysis of PDEs 2019-06-19 v2

Abstract

We prove the exponential convergence to the equilibrium, quantified by R\'enyi divergence, of the solution of the Fokker-Planck equation with drift given by the gradient of a strictly convex potential. This extends the classical exponential decay result on the relative entropy for the same equation.

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@article{arxiv.1805.06554,
  title  = {Exponential decay of R\'enyi divergence under Fokker-Planck equations},
  author = {Yu Cao and Jianfeng Lu and Yulong Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.06554},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Exponential convergence rate in Theorem 1.2 has been improved and a simpler proof is provided