A simple proof of the poincaré inequality for a large class of probability measures including the log-concave case

Electronic Communications in Probability

Volumn 13, Issue , 2008, Pages 60-66

  Bakry, Dominique ^a   Barthe, Franck ^a   Cattiaux, Patrick ^a   Guillin, Arnaud ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b Ecole Centrale Marseille   (France)

Author keywords

26D10; 47D07; 60G10; 60J60

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049091842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1083589X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v13-1352     Document Type: Article

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