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Stein kernels and moment maps

Probability 2023-06-08 v3 Analysis of PDEs Functional Analysis Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We describe a construction of Stein kernels using moment maps, which are solutions to a variant of the Monge-Amp\`ere equation. As a consequence, we show how regularity bounds on these maps control the rate of convergence in the classical central limit theorem, and derive new rates in Kantorovitch-Wasserstein distance in the log-concave situation, with explicit polynomial dependence on the dimension.

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@article{arxiv.1804.04699,
  title  = {Stein kernels and moment maps},
  author = {Max Fathi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.04699},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

v2: improved dependence on the dimension in the quantitative CLT. v3: corrected a wrong sentence, which does not affect the results or the proofs

R2 v1 2026-06-23T01:22:14.586Z