Understanding two-scale criteria for Poincaré and log-Sobolev inequalities in the Euclidean case through Φ-entropies

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Main Author: Srinivasan, Vishwak
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contents We study settings in which mixture and joint distributions satisfy a Poincaré (or log-Sobolev) inequality induced by a marginal and a collection of conditional distributions that are assumed to satisfy Poincaré (or log-Sobolev, resp.) inequalities and supported over Euclidean spaces. In this note, we use the framework of $Φ$-Sobolev inequalities (Chafaï, 2004) to provide a unified approach to arriving at these inequalities in the Euclidean case. This results in a simpler proof technique for establishing these functional inequalities under certain two-scale criteria. We also discuss applications of these results to certain sampling algorithms.
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spellingShingle Understanding two-scale criteria for Poincaré and log-Sobolev inequalities in the Euclidean case through Φ-entropies
Srinivasan, Vishwak
Probability
Functional Analysis
We study settings in which mixture and joint distributions satisfy a Poincaré (or log-Sobolev) inequality induced by a marginal and a collection of conditional distributions that are assumed to satisfy Poincaré (or log-Sobolev, resp.) inequalities and supported over Euclidean spaces. In this note, we use the framework of $Φ$-Sobolev inequalities (Chafaï, 2004) to provide a unified approach to arriving at these inequalities in the Euclidean case. This results in a simpler proof technique for establishing these functional inequalities under certain two-scale criteria. We also discuss applications of these results to certain sampling algorithms.
title Understanding two-scale criteria for Poincaré and log-Sobolev inequalities in the Euclidean case through Φ-entropies
topic Probability
Functional Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15410