TY - JOUR AB - 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. AU - Fathi, Max AU - Maas, Jan ID - 1448 IS - 3 JF - The Annals of Applied Probability TI - Entropic Ricci curvature bounds for discrete interacting systems VL - 26 ER -