Spectral gap for measure-valued diffusion processes

The spectral gap is estimated for measure-valued diffusion processes induced by the intrinsic/extrinsic derivatives on the space of finite measures over a Riemannian manifold. This provides explicit exponential convergence rate for these processes to approximate the Dirichlet and Gamma distributions arising from population genetics.Comment: 18 page

Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Type Processes on Wasserstein Space

Let $\mathcal P_2$ be the space of probability measures on $\R^d$ having finite second moment, and consider the Riemannian structure on $\mathcal P_2$ induced by the intrinsic derivative on the $L^2$-tangent space. By using stochastic analysis on the tangent space, we construct an Ornstein$-$Uhlenbeck (OU) type Dirichlet form on $\mathcal P_2$ whose generator is formally given by the intrinsic Laplacian with a drift. The log-Sobolev inequality holds and the associated Markov semigroup is $L^2$-compact. Perturbations of the OU Dirichlet form are also studied.Comment: 28 page