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A precise sum-cost form of tensorization of a transport-entropy inequality is as follows. Let ${\mu }_i$ be probability measures on Polish spaces and $c_i$ nonnegative continuous transport cost functions. Suppose for every probability measure ${\nu }_i$ thatThen for the product measure $\mu ={⨂}_i{\mu }_i$ and sum cost $c(x,y)={\sum }_i{c}_i(x_i,y_i)$,To understand the mechanism first for finite spaces, reveal the coordinates under $\nu$ in order. Given the previous coordinates $x_{<i}$, couple the conditional law ${\nu }_i(\cdot \mid x_{<i})$ to ${\mu }_i$. Choosing these couplings successively preserves the product measure as the second marginal. The total expected cost is at most $C{\sum }_i{\mathbb{E}}_{\nu }D({\nu }_i(\cdot \mid X_{<i})\Vert {\mu }_i)$, which equals $CD(\nu \Vert \mu )$ by the chain rule for relative entropy. Approximate optimal couplings give the infimum. This statement spells out the cost and constant; it does not identify every different distance-based normalization with the same formula.^[ref]

A transport-entropy inequality compares the cost of moving one probability measure to another with their relative entropy. For a nonnegative transport cost function $c$ and reference probability measure $\mu$, definewhere $\Pi (\nu ,\mu )$ consists of couplings with those marginals. One common convention is ${\mathcal{T}}_c(\nu ,\mu )\le CD(\nu \Vert \mu )$ for every probability measure $\nu$; the orientation of the relative entropy matters.

For a metric $d$, with the measures having finite first moments, the $T_1(C)$ convention is Wasserstein distance $W_1(\nu ,\mu {)}^2\le 2CD(\nu \Vert \mu )$, while $T_2(C)$ replaces $W_1$ by the second Wasserstein distance $W_2$. The first convention bounds fluctuations of all 1-Lipschitz functions: $\log {\mathbb{E}}_{\mu }{e}^{\lambda (f-{\mathbb{E}}_{\mu }f)}\le C{\lambda }^2/2$. The choice of a squared distance or an unsquared transport cost function is part of the statement, rather than a universal normalization.^[ref]