The systems of nonlinear gradient flows on metric spaces and their \(\Gamma\)-convergence (Q1925457)

Summary: We first establish the explicit structure of nonlinear gradient flow systems on metric spaces and then develop \(\Gamma\)-convergence of the systems of nonlinear gradient flows, which is a scheme meant to ensure that if a family of energy functionals of several variables depending on a parameter Gamma-converges, then the solutions to the associated systems of gradient flows converge as well. This scheme is a nonlinear system edition of the notion initiated by \textit{S. Serfaty} [Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 31, No. 4, 1427--1451 (2011; Zbl 1239.35015)].