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Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities in discrete product spaces

Part of: Time-dependent statistical mechanics (dynamic and nonequilibrium) General convexity Markov processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2019

Katalin Marton
Katalin Marton*
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H-1364 POB 127, Budapest, Hungary
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Email: marton@renyi.hu
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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to prove an inequality between relative entropy and the sum of average conditional relative entropies of the following form: for a fixed probability measure q on , ( is a finite set), and any probability measure on , (*)

$$D(p||q){\rm{\le}}C \cdot \sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {{\rm{\mathbb{E}}}_p D(p_i ( \cdot |Y_1 ,{\rm{ }}...,{\rm{ }}Y_{i - 1} ,{\rm{ }}Y_{i + 1} ,...,{\rm{ }}Y_n )||q_i ( \cdot |Y_1 ,{\rm{ }}...,{\rm{ }}Y_{i - 1} ,{\rm{ }}Y_{i + 1} ,{\rm{ }}...,{\rm{ }}Y_n )),} $$
where pi(· |y1, …, yi−1, yi+1, …, yn) and qi(· |x1, …, xi−1, xi+1, …, xn) denote the local specifications for p resp. q, that is, the conditional distributions of the ith coordinate, given the other coordinates. The constant C depends on (the local specifications of) q.

The inequality (*) ismeaningful in product spaces, in both the discrete and the continuous case, and can be used to prove a logarithmic Sobolev inequality for q, provided uniform logarithmic Sobolev inequalities are available for qi(· |x1, …, xi−1, xi+1, …, xn), for all fixed i and fixed (x1, …, xi−1, xi+1, …, xn). Inequality (*) directly implies that the Gibbs sampler associated with q is a contraction for relative entropy.

In this paper we derive inequality (*), and thereby a logarithmic Sobolev inequality, in discrete product spaces, by proving inequalities for an appropriate Wasserstein-like distance.

MSC classification

Primary: 60J10: Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces)
Secondary: 52A40: Inequalities and extremum problems 82C22: Interacting particle systems
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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 28 , Issue 6 , November 2019 , pp. 919 - 935
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Footnotes

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This work was supported by grant OTKA K 105840 of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and by National Research, Development and Innovation Office NKFIH K 120706.

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