Nonlinear spectral decompositions by gradient flows of one-homogeneous functionals (Q2037455)

From the authors' abstract: This paper established a theory of nonlinear spectral decompositions by considering the eigenvalue problem related to an absolutely one-homogeneous functional in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. This approach is both motivated by works for the total variation, where interesting results for the eigenvalue problem and the relation to the total variation flow have been proved previously, and by recent results on finite-dimensional polyhedral, semi-norms, where gradient flows can yield spectral decomposition into eigenvectors. We provide a geometrical characterization of eigenvectors via a dual unit ball and prove them to be subgradients of minimal norm. This establishes the connection to gradient flows\dots We also investigate extinction times and extinction profiles, which we characterize as eigenvectors in a very general setting, generalizing several results from literature.