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A note on the deficit of the logarithmic Sobolev inequality

Stephen Graham Walker

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We obtain a new bound for the deficit of the logarithmic Sobolev inequality. The starting point is the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality and, with no further inequalities, we obtain an elementary proof of one well known version of the inequality with the Gaussian

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We obtain a new bound for the deficit of the logarithmic Sobolev inequality. The starting point is the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality and, with no further inequalities, we obtain an elementary proof of one well known version of the inequality with the Gaussian

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We obtain a new bound for the deficit of the logarithmic Sobolev inequality. The starting point is the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality and, with no further inequalities, we obtain an elementary proof of one well known version of the inequality with the Gaussian

Key concepts: Mathematics, Logarithm, Inequality, Rearrangement inequality, Sobolev inequality, Kantorovich inequality, Poincaré inequality, Cauchy–Schwarz inequality

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