The heat flow on metric random walk spaces

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Abstract: In this paper we study the Heat Flow on Metric Random Walk Spaces, which unifies into a broad framework the heat flow on locally finite weighted connected graphs, the heat flow determined by finite Markov chains and some nonlocal evolution problems. We give different characterizations of the ergodicity and prove that a metric random walk space with positive Ollivier-Ricci curvature is ergodic. Furthermore, we prove a Cheeger inequality and, as a consequence, we show that a Poincar'{e} inequality holds if, and only if, an isoperimetric inequality holds. We also study the Bakry-'{E}mery curvature-dimension condition and its relation with functional inequalities like the Poincar'{e} inequality and the transport-information inequalities.


On a suitable symmetric random walk space, the authors provide Cheeger's inequality and the equivalence between Poincaré's inequality and an isoperimetric inequality. Also, the authors state that the positivity of the Bakry-Émery curvature-dimension condition implies a Transport-Information Inequality (TII) and that TII implies a transport-entropy inequality and normal concentration.



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