Martingale representation and a simple proof of logarithmic sobolev inequalities on path spaces

Electronic Communications in Probability

Volumn 2, Issue , 1997, Pages 71-81

  Capitaine, Mireille ^a   Hsu, Elton P ^b   Ledoux, Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypercontractivity; Logarithmic Sobolev Inequality; Martingale Representation; Path Space

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039907778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1083589X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v2-986     Document Type: Article

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