Block factorization of the relative entropy via spatial mixing

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Abstract: We consider spin systems in the d-dimensional lattice Zd satisfying the so-called strong spatial mixing condition. We show that the relative entropy functional of the corresponding Gibbs measure satisfies a family of inequalities which control the entropy on a given region VsubsetZd in terms of a weighted sum of the entropies on blocks AsubsetV when each A is given an arbitrary nonnegative weight alphaA. These inequalities generalize the well known logarithmic Sobolev inequality for the Glauber dynamics. Moreover, they provide a natural extension of the classical Shearer inequality satisfied by the Shannon entropy. Finally, they imply a family of modified logarithmic Sobolev inequalities which give quantitative control on the convergence to equilibrium of arbitrary weighted block dynamics of heat bath type.



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