On the Bakry-Emery criterion for linear diffusions and weighted porous media equations

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 477-494

  Dolbeault, J ^a   Nazaret, B ^a   Savare G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Convex sobolev inequality; Decay rate; Diffusion; Entropy; Fisher information; Free energy; Interpolation; Logarithmic sobolev inequality; Ornstein uhlenbeck operator; Parabolic equations; Poincar inequality; Porous media

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349085266     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CMS.2008.v6.n2.a10     Document Type: Article

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