Convergence of the log-Sobolev constant in the central limit theorem
Convergence of the log-Sobolev constant in the central limit theorem
Let be an isotropic distribution, meaning that
Let denote the normalized -fold convolution sequence from the central limit theorem, so that converges in law to the standard Gaussian distribution, and suppose that . The log-Sobolev convergence conjecture.
Since for the standard Gaussian , 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.
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Thomas A. Courtade and Edric Wang, “Subadditivity of the log-Sobolev constant on convolutions”, arXiv:2508.19648 (2025).
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