Transport inequalities, gradient estimates, entropy, and Ricci curvature

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 923-940

  Von Renesse, Max K ^a,b   Sturm, Karl Theodor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 20744448674     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.20060     Document Type: Review

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