Gradient flow structures for discrete porous medium equations

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Abstract: We consider discrete porous medium equations of the form partial_t ho_t = Delta phi( ho_t), where Delta is the generator of a reversible continuous time Markov chain on a finite set X, and phi is an increasing function. We show that these equations arise as gradient flows of certain entropy functionals with respect to suitable non-local transportation metrics. This may be seen as a discrete analogue of the Wasserstein gradient flow structure for porous medium equations in R^n discovered by Otto. We present a one-dimensional counterexample to geodesic convexity and discuss Gromov-Hausdorff convergence to the Wasserstein metric.




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