Download or read book An Initiation to Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities written by Gilles Royer and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to logarithmic Sobolev inequalities with some important applications to mathematical statistical physics. Royer begins by gathering and reviewing the necessary background material on selfadjoint operators, semigroups, Kolmogorov diffusion processes, and solutions of stochastic differential equations.