Characterization of Talagrand's transport-entropy inequalities in metric spaces (Q378792)

The authors establish that a modified log-Sobolev inequality implies the corresponding transport-entropy inequality, thus extending a classical result of Otto and Villani. As main result they obtain the equivalence of the transport-entropy inequality with a modified log-Sobolev inequality called \((\tau)\)-log Sobolev inequality. As an application it is deduced that these inequalities remain stable under perturbations (Holley-Stroock perturbation result).