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This paper develops a novel operator theoretic framework to study the contraction properties of Markov semigroups with respect to a general class of Kantorovich semi-distances, which notably includes Wasserstein distances. The rather simple…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Pierre Del Moral , Mathieu Gerber

We provide a unifying framework linking two classes of statistics used in two-sample and independence testing: on the one hand, the energy distances and distance covariances from the statistics literature; on the other, distances between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Dino Sejdinovic , Arthur Gretton , Bharath Sriperumbudur , Kenji Fukumizu

We investigate the transportation cost-information inequalities for bifurcating Markov chains which are a class of processes indexed by binary tree. These processes provide models for cell growth when each individual in one generation gives…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-28 Siméon Valère Bitseki Penda , Mikael Escobar-Bach , Arnaud Guillin

We derive sharp, local and dimension dependent hypercontractive bounds on the Markov kernel of a large class of diffusion semigroups. Unlike the dimension free ones, they capture refined properties of Markov kernels, such as trace…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-19 Dominique Bakry , François Bolley , Ivan Gentil

A systematic and unified approach to transformations and symmetries of general second order linear parabolic partial differential equations is presented. Equivalence group is used to derive the Appell type transformations, specifically…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-11 F. Gungor

Inspired by the recent theory of Entropy-Transport problems and by the $\mathbf{D}$-distance of Sturm on normalised metric measure spaces, we define a new class of complete and separable distances between metric measure spaces of possibly…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Nicoló De Ponti , Andrea Mondino

An analogue of the quadratic Wasserstein (or Monge-Kantorovich) distance between Borel probability measures on $\mathbf{R}^d$ has been defined in [F. Golse, C. Mouhot, T. Paul: Commun. Math. Phys. 343 (2015), 165-205] for density operators…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Emanuele Caglioti , François Golse , Thierry Paul

We introduce a unified framework for analyzing Markov dynamics by linking nonequilibrium thermodynamics with information geometry. Using the symmetrized Kullback-Leibler divergence, we reveal an intrinsic Minkowski structure in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-08 David Andrieux

This paper is devoted to a new family of reverse Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequalities which involve a power law kernel with positive exponent. We investigate the range of the admissible parameters and the properties of the optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-17 José A. Carrillo , Matías G. Delgadino , Jean Dolbeault , Rupert L. Frank , Franca Hoffmann

This paper is devoted to a new family of reverse Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequalities which involve a power law kernel with positive exponent. We investigate the range of the admissible parameters and characterize the optimal functions. A…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Jean Dolbeault , Rupert Frank , Franca Hoffmann

We consider metric graphs with Kirchhoff boundary conditions. We study the intrinsic metric, volume doubling and a Poincar\'e inequality. This enables us to prove a parabolic Harnack inequality. The proof involves various techniques from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-18 Sebastian Haeseler

Functional inequalities such as the Poincar\'e and log-Sobolev inequalities quantify convergence to equilibrium in continuous-time Markov chains by linking generator properties to variance and entropy decay. However, many applications,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Bastian Hilder , Patrick van Meurs , Upanshu Sharma

Semi-Markov processes generalize Markov processes by adding temporal memory effects as expressed by a semi-Markov kernel. We recall the path weight for a semi-Markov trajectory and the fact that thermodynamic consistency in equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-15 Benjamin Ertel , Jann van der Meer , Udo Seifert

This paper studies Brownian motion and heat kernel measure on a class of infinite dimensional Lie groups. We prove a Cameron-Martin type quasi-invariance theorem for the heat kernel measure and give estimates on the $L^p$ norms of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Tai Melcher

We characterise equality cases in matrix H\"older's inequality and develop a divergence formulation of optimal transport of vector measures. As an application, we reprove the representation formula for measures in the polar cone to monotone…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Krzysztof J. Ciosmak

We explore alternative functional or transport-entropy formulations of the Blaschke-Santal{\'o} inequality and of its conjectured counterpart due to Mahler. In particular, we obtain new direct and reverse Blaschke-Santal{\'o} inequalities…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Matthieu Fradelizi , Nathael Gozlan , Shay Sadovsky , Simon Zugmeyer

In this paper, we establish the Hausdorff dimensions of inverse images and collision time sets for a large class of symmetric Markov processes on metric measure spaces. We apply the approach in the works by Hawkes and Jain--Pruitt, and make…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Yuichi Shiozawa , Jian Wang

We develop the optimal transportation approach to modified log-Sobolev inequalities and to isoperimetric inequalities. Various sufficient conditions for such inequalities are given. Some of them are new even in the classical log-Sobolev…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-09-26 Franck Barthe , Alexander V. Kolesnikov

In this paper, we derive quantitative convergence rates for stochastic processes associated with resistance forms. While the qualitative convergence of heat kernels and semigroups under the Gromov-Hausdorff-vague convergence of underlying…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Koyo Oishi

It is known that the Poincar\'e inequality is equivalent to the quadratic transportation-variance inequality (namely $W_2^2(f\mu,\mu) \leqslant C_V \mathrm{Var}_\mu(f)$), see Jourdain \cite{Jourdain} and most recently Ledoux…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Yuan Liu