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Functional inequalities for Gaussian convolutions of compactly supported measures: explicit bounds and dimension dependence

Probability 2015-07-10 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to establish various functional inequalities for the convolution of a compactly supported measure and a standard Gaussian distribution on Rd. We especially focus on getting good dependence of the constants on the dimension. We prove that the Poincar{\'e} inequality holds with a dimension-free bound. For the logarithmic Sobolev inequality, we improve the best known results (Zimmermann, JFA 2013) by getting a bound that grows linearly with the dimension. We also establish transport-entropy inequalities for various transport costs.

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@article{arxiv.1507.02389,
  title  = {Functional inequalities for Gaussian convolutions of compactly supported measures: explicit bounds and dimension dependence},
  author = {Jean-Baptiste Bardet and Nathaël Gozlan and Florent Malrieu and Pierre-André Zitt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.02389},
  year   = {2015}
}