Concentration of Measure for Products of Markov Kernels and Graph Products via Functional Inequalities

  • Authors:
  • C. Houdré;P. Tetali

  • Affiliations:
  • Southeast Applied Analysis Center, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA (e-mail: houdre@math.gatech.edu);School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA (e-mail: tetali@math.gatech.edu)

  • Venue:
  • Combinatorics, Probability and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present versions of concentration inequalities for products of Markov kernels and graph products. We also present discussions of a variety of consequences such as sharp upper bounds, in terms of the diameter of the state space, on the spectral gap.