High-frequency limit of non-autonomous gradient flows of functionals with time-periodic forcing

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2016.09.003MaRDI QIDQ329251zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Simon Plazotta, Jonathan Zinsl

Publication date 21 October 2016

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.04445

zbMATH Keywords

Wasserstein metricminimizing movementsnonlinear drift-diffusion equationsrapid oscillationstime-averaged evolution equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Initial value problems for nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G25) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic systems (35K45) Topological dynamics of nonautonomous systems (37B55)

Abstract: We study the high-frequency limit of non-autonomous gradient flows in metric spaces of energy functionals comprising an explicitly time-dependent perturbation term which might oscillate in a rapid way, but fulfills a certain Lipschitz condition. On grounds of the existence results by Ferreira and Guevara (2015) on non-autonomous gradient flows (which we also extend to the framework of geodesically non-convex energies), we prove that the associated solution curves converge to a solution of the time-averaged evolution equation in the limit of infinite frequency. Under the additional assumption of dynamical geodesic $lambda$-convexity of the energy, we obtain an explicit rate of convergence. In the non-convex case, we specifically investigate nonlinear drift-diffusion equations with time-dependent drift which are gradient flows with respect to the $L^2$-Wasserstein distance. We prove that a family of weak solutions obtained as a limit of the Minimizing Movement scheme exhibits the above-mentioned behaviour in the high-frequency limit.

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