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Transport-entropy inequalities on the line

Probability 2012-03-05 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for transport-entropy inequalities in dimension one. As an application, we construct a new example of a probability distribution verifying Talagrand's T2 inequality and not the logarithmic Sobolev inequality.

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@article{arxiv.1203.0326,
  title  = {Transport-entropy inequalities on the line},
  author = {Nathael Gozlan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.0326},
  year   = {2012}
}