We provide yet another proof of the Otto-Villani theorem from the log Sobolev inequality to the Talagrand transportation cost inequality valid in arbitrary metric measure spaces. The argument relies on the recent development [2] identifying gradient flows in Hilbert space and in Wassertein space, emphasizing one key step as precisely the root of the Otto-Villani theorem. The approach does not r...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2014.03.001 1570-8705/ 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +55 21 2562 8635. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (L.H.G. Ferraz), [email protected] (P.B. Velloso), [email protected] (O.C.M.B. Duarte). 1 Grupo de Teleinformática e Automação – GTA, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), P.O. Box 68504, 21945-972 Ilha do Fun...

In this paper, we present OTTO, a web-based transcription tool which is designed for diplomatic transcription of historical language data. The tool supports fast and accurate typing, by use of userdefined special characters, and, simultaneously, providing a view on the manuscript that is as close to the original as possible. It also allows for the annotation of rich, user-defined header informa...

Loreen Zegenhagen1,2*, Chaitanya Kurhade3, Andrea Kröger1,2 and Anna K Överby3 1Institute of Medical Microbiology, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany 2Innate Immunity and Infection, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany 3Department of Clinical Microbiology, Virology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden *Corresponding author: Loreen Zegenhagen, Institut...

In this article we consider a lattice system of unbounded continuous spins. Otto and Reznikoff used the two-scale approach to show that exponential decay of correlations yields a logarithmic Sobolev inequality (LSI) with uniform constant in the system size. We improve their statement by weakening the assumptions, for which a more detailed analysis based on two new ingredients is needed. The two...

To the memory of William Ronald Sendall Sternaspid polychaetes are common and often abundant in soft bottoms in the world oceans. Some authors suggest that only one species should be recognized, whereas others regard a few species as widely distributed in many seas and variable depths from the low intertidal to about 4400 m. There are some problems with species delineation and the distinctive v...