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We obtain and study new $Phi$-entropy inequalities for diffusion semigroups, with Poincare or logarithmic Sobolev inequalities as particular cases. From this study we derive the asymptotic behaviour of a large class of linear Fokker-Plank type equations under simple conditions, widely extending previous results. Nonlinear diffusion equations are also studied by means of these inequalities. The $Gamma_2$ criterion of D. Bakry and M. Emery appears as a main tool in the analysis, in local or integral forms.
We investigate the dissipativity properties of a class of scalar second order parabolic partial differential equations with time-dependent coefficients. We provide explicit condition on the drift term which ensure that the relative entropy of one par
We investigate the Renyi entropy of independent sums of integer valued random variables through Fourier theoretic means, and give sharp comparisons between the variance and the Renyi entropy, for Poisson-Bernoulli variables. As applications we prove
Concentration properties of functionals of general Poisson processes are studied. Using a modified $Phi$-Sobolev inequality a recursion scheme for moments is established, which is of independent interest. This is applied to derive moment and concentr
We establish a discrete analog of the Renyi entropy comparison due to Bobkov and Madiman. For log-concave variables on the integers, the min entropy is within log e of the usual Shannon entropy. Additionally we investigate the entropic Rogers-Shephar
In his work about hypocercivity, Villani [18] considers in particular convergence to equilibrium for the kinetic Langevin process. While his convergence results in L 2 are given in a quite general setting, convergence in entropy requires some bounded