
On Poincare and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for a class of singular Gibbs measures
Chafaï, Djalil; Lehec, Joseph (2018), On Poincare and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for a class of singular Gibbs measures. https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/17979
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https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01781502Date
2018Series title
Cahier de recherche CEREMADE, Université Paris-DauphinePages
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This note, mostly expository, is devoted to Poincaré and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for a class of singular Boltzmann-Gibbs measures. Such measures allow to model one-dimensional particles with confinement and singular pair interaction. The functional inequalities come from the convexity of confinement and interaction. We prove optimality in the case of quadratic confinement by using a factorization of the measure. This optimality phenomenon holds for all beta Hermite ensembles including the Gauss-ian unitary ensemble, a famous exactly solvable model of random matrix theory. We further explore exact solvability by reviewing the relation to Dyson-Ornstein-Uhlenbeck diffusion dynamics which admits the Hermite-Lassalle orthogonal polynomials as a complete set of eigenfunctions. We also discuss the McKean-Vlasov mean-field limit of the dynamics, as well as the consequence of the logarithmic Sobolev inequality in terms of concentration of measure for Lipschitz functions such as maxima and linear statistics.Subjects / Keywords
Boltzmann–Gibbs measure; Gaussian unitary ensemble; Random matrix theory; Spectral analysis; Geometric functional analysis; Log-concave measure; Poincaré inequality; Logarithmic Sobolev inequality; Concentration of measure; Diffusion operator; Orthogonal polynomialsRelated items
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