Diffusion processes associated with nonlinear evolution equations for signed measures (Q1577411)

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    Diffusion processes associated with nonlinear evolution equations for signed measures (English)
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    13 May 2001
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    The author is interested in probabilistic particle approximations of the solution of a nonlinear parabolic evolution equation starting at a bounded signed measure. His approach generalizes results obtained when the initial condition is a probability measure. One introduces a nonlinear martingale problem, under the solution \(P\) of which one recovers the solution of the partial differential equation. Here, the originality consists in giving to each sample path a signed weight which depends on the initial position. After dealing with the classical McKean-Vlasov equation, the author is interested in a viscous scalar conservation law. He proves uniqueness for the associated nonlinear martingale problem and obtains existence thanks to a propagation of chaos result for a system of weakly interacting diffusion processes. Then he studies the associated fluctuations and presents numerical results which confirm the theoretical rate of convergence.
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    nonlinear martingale problem
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    propagation of chaos
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    fluctuations
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