Stein's method, logarithmic Sobolev and transport inequalities

DOI10.1007/S00039-015-0312-0MaRDI QIDQ2339746zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ivan Nourdin, Giovanni Peccati, Michel Ledoux

Publication date 2 April 2015

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5855

zbMATH Keywords

entropynormal approximationconcentration inequalityFisher information\(\Gamma\)-calculuslogarithmic Sobolev inequalityStein discrepancytransport inequalityconvergence to equilibriumStein kernel

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convergence of probability measures (60B10) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Inequalities involving derivatives and differential and integral operators (26D10)

Abstract: We develop connections between Stein's approximation method, logarithmic Sobolev and transport inequalities by introducing a new class of functional inequalities involving the relative entropy, the Stein kernel, the relative Fisher information and the Wasserstein distance with respect to a given reference distribution on $mathbb{R}^d$. For the Gaussian model, the results improve upon the classical logarithmic Sobolev inequality and the Talagrand quadratic transportation cost inequality. Further examples of illustrations include multidimensional gamma distributions, beta distributions, as well as families of log-concave densities. As a by-product, the new inequalities are shown to be relevant towards convergence to equilibrium, concentration inequalities and entropic convergence expressed in terms of the Stein kernel. The tools rely on semigroup interpolation and bounds, in particular by means of the iterated gradients of the Markov generator with invariant measure the distribution under consideration. In a second part, motivated by the recent investigation by Nourdin, Peccati and Swan on Wiener chaoses, we address the issue of entropic bounds on multidimensional functionals $F$ with the Stein kernel via a set of data on $F$ and its gradients rather than on the Fisher information of the density. A natural framework for this investigation is given by the Markov Triple structure $(E,mu,Gamma)$ in which abstract Malliavin-type arguments may be developed and extend the Wiener chaos setting.

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