Transportation cost inequalities on path spaces over Riemannian manifolds

Illinois Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1197-1206

  Wang, Feng Yu ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 0141432133     PISSN: 00192082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/ijm/1258138474     Document Type: Article

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