The Gaussian Isoperimetric Inequality and Transportation

Positivity

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 203-224

  Blower, Gordon ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Isoperimetric function; Logarithmic Sobolev inequality; Orlicz spaces; Transportation

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642581772     PISSN: 13851292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026242611940     Document Type: Article

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