Entropy bounds and isoperimetry

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 176, Issue 829, 2005, Pages

  Bobkov, S G ^a   Zegarlinski, B ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Coercive and isoperimetric inequalities; Concentration of measure; Gibbs measures; Infinite dimensional spaces; Markov semigroups

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644463688     PISSN: 00659266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/memo/0829     Document Type: Article

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