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The\r\nvariety of problems encountered calls for a set of different approaches, ranging from classical to\r\nmodern ones: a special place is held by probabilistic methods based on couplings, by functional\r\ninequalities, and by the theory of gradient flows in the space of measures.\r\n\r\nThe material is organized as follows. Chapter 1 contains the introduction to this thesis, starting\r\nwith a general presentation of some of the relevant topics. Section 1.1 is dedicated to the\r\ntheory of gradient flows in metric spaces, and introduces the first contribution of this thesis\r\n[DSMP24], which is presented in detail in Chapter 2. Section 1.2 moves to the topic of\r\ncurvature of Markov chains, concluding with a brief description of our second contribution\r\n[Ped23], which is included in Chapter 3. Section 1.3 discusses applications of stochastic\r\nprocesses to the theory of sampling, in particular the recent framework of score-based diffusion\r\nmodels, and our contribution [PMM24], which is contained in Chapter 4. Section 1.4 discusses\r\nsome related problems, concerning the regularization properties of the heat flow. It serves\r\nas a motivation for the work [BP24], which we report in Chapter 5. Finally, Section 1.5\r\ndiscusses the last contribution of this thesis, which can be found in Chapter 6. It deals with\r\nthe convergence to equilibrium of a particular stochastic model from quantitative genetics:\r\nthis is established via some functional inequalities, which we prove with probabilistic arguments\r\nbased on couplings.\r\n"}],"user_id":"8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9","has_accepted_license":"1"}