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We prove the concavity of $p$-R\'enyi entropy power for positive solutions to the doubly nonlinear diffusion equations on $\mathbb{R}^n$ or compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. As applications, we give new proofs…

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We show that finite element discretizations of incompressible flow problems can be designed to ensure preservation/dissipation of kinetic energy not only globally but also locally. In the context of equal-order (piecewise-linear)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Hennes Hajduk , Dmitri Kuzmin , Gert Lube , Philipp Öffner

We study the asymptotic properties of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian in the case of a compact Riemannian surface of nonpositive sectional curvature. We show that the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of a semiclassical measure for the geodesic flow…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-02-24 Gabriel Riviere

This paper is devoted to logarithmic Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequalities in the two-dimensional Euclidean space, in presence of an external potential with logarithmic growth. The coupling with the potential introduces a new parameter,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Jean Dolbeault , Xingyu Li

High order entropy stable schemes provide improved robustness for computational simulations of fluid flows. However, additional stabilization and positivity preserving limiting can still be required for variable-density flows with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Jesse Chan , Hendrik Ranocha , Andres Rueda-Ramirez , Gregor Gassner , Tim Warburton

In this paper we study the geodesic flow for a particular class of Riemannian non-compact manifolds with variable pinched negative sectional curvature. For a sequence of invariant measures we are able to prove results relating the loss of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Godofredo Iommi , Felipe Riquelme , Anibal Velozo

In this article we study generalization of the classical Talagrand transport-entropy inequality in which the Wasserstein distance is replaced by the entropic transportation cost. This class of inequalities has been introduced in the recent…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Giovanni Conforti , Luigia Ripani

We prove new entropy inequalities for log concave and s-concave functions that strengthen and generalize recently established reverse log Sobolev and Poincare inequalities for such functions. This leads naturally to the concept of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Umut Caglar , Elisabeth M. Werner

We provide deficit estimates for Nelson's hypercontractivity inequality, the logarithmic Sobolev inequality, and Talagrand's transportation cost inequality under the restriction that the inputs are semi-log-subharmonic, semi-log-convex, or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Neal Bez , Shohei Nakamura , Hiroshi Tsuji

We develop a technique to obtain new symmetrization inequalities that provide a unified framework to study Sobolev inequalities, concentration inequalities and sharp integrability of solutions of elliptic equations

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Joaquim Martin , Mario Milman

We study the connection between the concavity properties of a measure $\nu$ and the convexity properties of the associated relative entropy $D(\cdot \Vert \nu)$ along optimal transport. As a corollary we prove a new dimensional…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Gautam Aishwarya , Liran Rotem

We establish a general criterion on the upper semi-continuity of partial entropy in all directions for $C^{1+\alpha}$ diffeomorphisms: it holds when the respective sums of Lyapunov exponents are continuous. This addresses, in arbitrary…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Gang Liao , Huirong Tao , Yao Tong , Jiagang Yang

Entropy increase is fundamentally related to the breaking of time-reversal symmetry. By adding the 'extra dimension' associated with thermodynamic forces, we extend that discrete symmetry to a continuous symmetry for the dynamical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-28 Aaron Beyen , Christian Maes

We identify sharp spaces and prove quantitative and non-quantitative stability results for the logarithmic Sobolev inequality involving Wasserstein and $L^p$ metrics. The techniques are based on optimal transport theory and Fourier…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-17 Emanuel Indrei , Daesung Kim

We prove a sharp quantitative version for the stability of the Sobolev inequality with explicit constants. Moreover, the constants have the correct behavior in the limit of large dimensions, which allows us to deduce an optimal quantitative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Jean Dolbeault , Maria J. Esteban , Alessio Figalli , Rupert L. Frank , Michael Loss

Inspired by work of Colding-Minicozzi on mean curvature flow, Zhang introduced a notion of entropy stability for harmonic map flow. We build further upon this work in several directions. First we prove the equivalence of entropy stability…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Jess Boling , Casey Lynn Kelleher , Jeffrey Streets

We prove an intrinsic equivalence between strong hypercontractivity and a strong logarithmic Sobolev inequality for the cone of logarithmically subharmonic functions. We introduce a new large class of measures, Euclidean regular and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Piotr Graczyk , Todd Kemp , Jean-Jacques Loeb

We revisit the existence of monotonic quantities along renormalization group flows using only the Null Energy Condition and the Ryu-Takayanagi formula for the entanglement entropy of field theories with anti-de Sitter gravity duals. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-27 Evan Deddo , James T. Liu , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Robert J. Saskowski

The entropy power inequality, which plays a fundamental role in information theory and probability, may be seen as an analogue of the Brunn-Minkowski inequality. Motivated by this connection to Convex Geometry, we survey various recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Mokshay Madiman , James Melbourne , Peng Xu

We prove that the entropy map for countable Markov shifts of finite entropy is upper semi-continuous at ergodic measures. Note that the phase space is non-compact. Applications to systems that can be coded by these shifts, such as positive…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Godofredo Iommi , Mike Todd , Aníbal Velozo