1205.4599 (Paolo Dai Pra et al.)

Entropy decay for interacting systems via the Bochner--Bakry--Emery
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Paolo Dai Pra, Gustavo Posta

We obtain estimates on the exponential rate of decay of the relative entropy from equilibrium for Markov processes with a non-local infinitesimal generator. We adapt some of the ideas coming from the Bakry-Emery approach to this setting. In particular, we obtain volume-independent lower bounds for the Glauber dynamics of interacting point particles and for various classes of hardcore models.

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