The Poisson transport map
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: We construct a transport map from Poisson point processes onto ultra-log-concave measures over the natural numbers, and show that this map is a contraction. Our approach overcomes the known obstacles to transferring functional inequalities using transport maps in discrete settings, and allows us to deduce a number of functional inequalities for ultra-log-concave measures. In particular, we provide the currently best known constant in modified logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for ultra-log-concave measures.
Source: Journal of Functional Analysis
Authors: Pablo López-Rivera, Yair Shenfeld
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Mathematics
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,250
OpenAlex ID: W4407318699
