Convergence of the log-Sobolev constant in the central limit theorem

Let μ∈P(Rd)\mu\in\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{R}^d) be an isotropic distribution, meaning that

∫x dμ(x)=0and∫xxT dμ(x)=Id.\int x\,d\mu(x)=0\quad\text{and}\quad\int xx^T\,d\mu(x)=I_d.

Let νn\nu_n denote the normalized nn-fold convolution sequence from the central limit theorem, so that νn\nu_n converges in law to the standard Gaussian distribution, and suppose that CLS(μ)<∞C_{LS}(\mu)<\infty. The log-Sobolev convergence conjecture.

lim⁡n⟶∞CLS(νn)=1.\lim_{n\longrightarrow\infty}C_{LS}(\nu_n)=1.

Since CLS(γ)=1C_{LS}(\gamma)=1 for the standard Gaussian γ\gamma, this would show that the log-Sobolev constant detects convergence to Gaussianity along the central limit theorem. The analogous convergence for the Poincaré constant is known, while the stated log-Sobolev convergence is proposed here and its status is not established in the supplied text.

References

Primary source

Thomas A. Courtade and Edric Wang, “Subadditivity of the log-Sobolev constant on convolutions”, arXiv:2508.19648 (2025).

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