Rigidity and stability of Caffarelli's log-concave perturbation theorem

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2016.10.006zbMATH Open1359.60050arXiv1605.09702OpenAlexW2962875168WikidataQ112631929 ScholiaQ112631929MaRDI QIDQ515696FDOQ515696

Authors: Guido De Philippis, Alessio Figalli 

Publication date: 16 March 2017

Published in: Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this note we establish some rigidity and stability results for Caffarelli's log-concave perturbation theorem. As an application we show that if a 1-log-concave measure has almost the same Poincar'e constant as the Gaussian measure, then it almost splits off a Gaussian factor.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.09702

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zbMATH Keywords

optimal transportlog concave measures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gaussian processes (60G15) Probability measures on topological spaces (60B05) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20)

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