Concentration of measure on product spaces with applications to Markov processes

Studia Mathematica

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-72

  Blower, Gordon ^a,b   Bolley, François ^a,c,d  

^a Lancaster University ^*

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Logarithmic Sobolev inequality; Optimal transportation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748761154     PISSN: 00393223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4064/sm175-1-3     Document Type: Article

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