Comment on ``Hypercontractivity of Hamilton-Jacobi equations'' by S. G. Bobkov, I. Gentil and M. Ledoux. (Q1606248)

The authors prove an HWI inequality for the diffusion semigroup on \(\mathbb R^d\) generated by \(\Delta -\nabla V\) where \(V\) is a convex smooth function. From this they derive an inverse transportation cost inequality first given by \textit{S. Bobkov, I. Gentil, M. Ledoux} [ibid. 80, No. 7, 669--696 (2001; Zbl 1038.35020)] for smooth \(V\) with Hessian matrix bounded from below.