Curvature and transport inequalities for Markov chains in discrete spaces

DOI10.3150/16-BEJ892zbMath1396.60084arXiv1509.07160MaRDI QIDQ2405199

Max Fathi, Yan Shu

Publication date: 21 September 2017

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.07160

zbMATH Keywords

Markov chainscurvaturefunctional inequalitiesoptimal transportdiscrete spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to probability theory (60-02)

Related Items (21)

Rigidity of the Bonnet-Myers inequality for graphs with respect to Ollivier Ricci curvature ⋮ Weak monotone rearrangement on the line ⋮ Metric measure spaces and synthetic Ricci bounds: fundamental concepts and recent developments ⋮ Heat flow and concentration of measure on directed graphs with a lower Ricci curvature bound ⋮ Fast reaction limits via \(\Gamma\)-convergence of the flux rate functional ⋮ Sparse expanders have negative curvature ⋮ Rigidity properties of the hypercube via Bakry-Émery curvature ⋮ Transport-Entropy Inequalities and Curvature in Discrete-Space Markov Chains ⋮ From Hopf--Lax Formula to Optimal Weak Transfer Plan ⋮ Hamilton-Jacobi equations on graph and applications ⋮ Bakry-Émery curvature and diameter bounds on graphs ⋮ Curvature-dimension inequalities for non-local operators in the discrete setting ⋮ The heat flow on metric random walk spaces ⋮ Distance bounds for graphs with some negative Bakry-Émery curvature ⋮ Coverings and the heat equation on graphs: Stochastic incompleteness, the Feller property, and uniform transience ⋮ Applications of weak transport theory ⋮ Shadow couplings ⋮ Ollivier Ricci curvature for general graph Laplacians: heat equation, Laplacian comparison, non-explosion and diameter bounds ⋮ Existence, duality, and cyclical monotonicity for weak transport costs ⋮ Non-negative Ollivier curvature on graphs, reverse Poincaré inequality, Buser inequality, Liouville property, Harnack inequality and eigenvalue estimates ⋮ Bakry-Émery curvature on graphs as an eigenvalue problem

This page was built for publication: Curvature and transport inequalities for Markov chains in discrete spaces