Stability of the Shannon-Stam inequality via the Föllmer process
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We prove stability estimates for the Shannon-Stam inequality (also known as the entropy-power inequality) for log-concave random vectors in terms of entropy and transportation distance. In particular, we give the first stability estimate for general log-concave random vectors in the following form: for log-concave random vectors X,Y ∈R^d, the deficit in the Shannon-Stam inequality is bounded from below by the expression C (D(X||G) + D(Y||G)), where D( · ||G) denotes the relative entropy with respect to the standard Gaussian and the constant C depends only on the covariance structures and the spectral gaps of X and Y. In the case of uniformly log-concave vectors our analysis gives dimension-free bounds. Our proofs are based on a new approach which uses an entropy-minimizing process from stochastic control theory.
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