Global attractors for gradient flows in metric spaces (Q626799)

The authors develop the long-time analysis for gradient flow equations in metric spaces. In particular, two notions of solutions for metric gradient flows, i.e. energy and generalized solutions, are considered. For both notions of solutions the existence of the global attractor is proved. The considered notions are quite flexible and can be used to address gradient flows in a variety of contexts, ranging from Banach spaces, to Wasserstein spaces of probability measures. The authors present applications of their abstract results, given in the first part of the paper, by proving the existence of the global attractor for the energy solutions, both of abstract doubly nonlinear evolution equations in reflexive Banach spaces, and of a class of evolution equations in Wasserstein spaces, as well as for the generalized solutions of some phase-change evolutions driven by mean curvature.