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Gross, L. (1993). Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and contractivity properties of semigroups. In: Dell'Antonio, G., Mosco, U. (eds) Dirichlet Forms. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0074091

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