{"paper":{"title":"Exponential Contraction in Wasserstein Distances for Diffusion Semigroups with Negative Curvature","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"math.PR","authors_text":"Feng-Yu Wang","submitted_at":"2016-03-18T01:58:21Z","abstract_excerpt":"Let $P_t$ be the (Neumann) diffusion semigroup $P_t$ generated by a weighted Laplacian on a complete connected Riemannian manifold $M$ without boundary or with a convex boundary. It is well known that the Bakry-Emery curvature is bounded below by a positive constant $\\ll>0$ if and only if $$W_p(\\mu_1P_t, \\mu_2P_t)\\le \\e^{-\\ll t} W_p (\\mu_1,\\mu_2),\\ \\ t\\ge 0, p\\ge 1 $$ holds for all probability measures $\\mu_1$ and $\\mu_2$ on $M$, where $W_p$ is the $L^p$ Wasserstein distance induced by the Riemannian distance. In this paper, we prove the exponential contraction $$W_p(\\mu_1P_t, \\mu_2P_t)\\le c\\e"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1603.05749","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}