Logarithmic Sobolev inequality and strong ergodicity for birth-death processes

Abstract

We give two examples to show that the strong ergodicity and the logarithmic Sobolev inequality are incomparable for ergodic birth-death processes.

Keywords

Strong ergodicity / logarithmic Sobolev inequality / birth death processes

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