Propagation of chaos in Fisher information

Abstract

We present a new method for proving sharp local propagation of chaos in Fisher Information for particles with smooth interaction and drift. We rely on a new Lemma computing the Fisher Information of two diffusion processes with smooth drifts and fine estimates on the hessian of the law of the solution of the McKean-Vlasov equation. It allows us to obtain a new propagation of chaos in Fisher information, generalizing Lacker's seminal work by using the BBGKY hierarchy to obtain a system of differential inequalities satisfied by both the relative entropy and the Fisher Information of k particles. We also show with a simple Gaussian example that our decay rate is optimal.