A family of functional inequalities: Lojasiewicz inequalities and displacement convex functions

Résumé

For displacement convex functionals in the probability space equipped with the Monge-Kantorovich metric we prove the equivalence between the gradient and functional type Łojasiewicz inequalities. We also discuss the more general case of λ-convex functions and we provide a general convergence theorem for the corresponding gradient dynamics. Specialising our results to the Boltzmann entropy, we recover Otto-Villani's theorem asserting the equivalence between logarithmic Sobolev and Talagrand's inequalities. The choice of power-type entropies shows a new equivalence between Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality and a nonlinear Talagrand inequality. Some nonconvex results and other types of equivalences are discussed.

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Remplace

Adrien Blanchet et Jérôme Bolte, « A family of functional inequalities: lojasiewicz inequalities and displacement convex functions », TSE Working Paper, n° 17-787, mars 2017.

Référence

Adrien Blanchet et Jérôme Bolte, « A family of functional inequalities: Lojasiewicz inequalities and displacement convex functions », Journal of Functional Analysis, vol. 25, n° 7, octobre 2018, p. 1650–1673.