Entropic Ricci curvature bounds for discrete interacting systems
Fathi M, Maas J. 2016. Entropic Ricci curvature bounds for discrete interacting systems. The Annals of Applied Probability. 26(3), 1774–1806.
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Fathi, Max;
Maas, JanISTA 
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We develop a new and systematic method for proving entropic Ricci curvature lower bounds for Markov chains on discrete sets. Using different methods, such bounds have recently been obtained in several examples (e.g., 1-dimensional birth and death chains, product chains, Bernoulli–Laplace models, and random transposition models). However, a general method to obtain discrete Ricci bounds had been lacking. Our method covers all of the examples above. In addition we obtain new Ricci curvature bounds for zero-range processes on the complete graph. The method is inspired by recent work of Caputo, Dai Pra and Posta on discrete functional inequalities.
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2016-06-01
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The Annals of Applied Probability
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Institute of Mathematical Statistics
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Supported by the German Research Foundation through the Collaborative Research Center 1060
The Mathematics of Emergent Effects and the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics. Part of this work has been done while M. Fathi visited J. Maas at the University of Bonn in July 2014.We would like to thank the referees for their careful reading of the manuscript.
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26
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3
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1774 - 1806
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Fathi M, Maas J. Entropic Ricci curvature bounds for discrete interacting systems. The Annals of Applied Probability. 2016;26(3):1774-1806. doi:10.1214/15-AAP1133
Fathi, M., & Maas, J. (2016). Entropic Ricci curvature bounds for discrete interacting systems. The Annals of Applied Probability. Institute of Mathematical Statistics. https://doi.org/10.1214/15-AAP1133
Fathi, Max, and Jan Maas. “Entropic Ricci Curvature Bounds for Discrete Interacting Systems.” The Annals of Applied Probability. Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1214/15-AAP1133.
M. Fathi and J. Maas, “Entropic Ricci curvature bounds for discrete interacting systems,” The Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 26, no. 3. Institute of Mathematical Statistics, pp. 1774–1806, 2016.
Fathi M, Maas J. 2016. Entropic Ricci curvature bounds for discrete interacting systems. The Annals of Applied Probability. 26(3), 1774–1806.
Fathi, Max, and Jan Maas. “Entropic Ricci Curvature Bounds for Discrete Interacting Systems.” The Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 26, no. 3, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2016, pp. 1774–806, doi:10.1214/15-AAP1133.
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