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relative entropy, Fisher information, and metric slope for non-convex domains
$\newcommand{\R}{\mathbb R}$ If $\Omega\subset \R^d$ is a convex domain it is well-known that the relative entropy
$$
\mathcal H(\rho)=
\int_{\Omega}\rho\log\rho \ \mathrm{d}x
\qquad \mbox{for }\rho=...
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The geometric median of a triangle
Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n$ be a compact domain of dimension $n$. Define the geometric median on $\Omega$ as the point $m_{\Omega}\in \mathbb R^n$ such that the integral $\int_{\Omega}|x-m_{\Omega}...
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Lax CD(K, $\infty)$ space in the sense of Sturm
In K.T. Sturm's "On the geometry of metric measure spaces. I", Definition 4.5, he introduces a "lax" version of the usual CD(K,$\infty$) lower bound. Namely, one allows for $\...