 Discrete-time Poincaré inequality for a Markov kernel (source code)

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= Discrete-time Poincaré inequality for a Markov kernel
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For a reversible kernel $K$, the inequality $\operatorname{Var}_\pi(f)\leq C\mathcal E_{K^2}(f)$ is equivalent to geometric contraction of variance under iteration of $K$.

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