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Fokker-Planck equations and one-dimensional functional inequalities for heavy tailed densities

Authors :
Furioli, Giulia
Pulvirenti, Ada
Terraneo, Elide
Toscani, Giuseppe
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

We study one-dimensional functional inequalities of the type of Poincar\'e, logarithmic Sobolev and Wirtinger, with weight, for probability densities with polynomial tails. As main examples, we obtain sharp inequalities satisfied by inverse Gamma densities, taking values on $R_+$, and Cauchy-type densities, taking values on $R$. In this last case, we improve the result obtained by Bobkov and Ledoux in 2009 by introducing a better weight function in the logarithmic Sobolev inequality. The results are obtained by resorting to Fokker-Planck type equations which possess these densities as steady states.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2011.01610
Document Type :
Working Paper