On gradient flows

DOI10.1006/JDEQ.1997.3376MaRDI QIDQ1265107zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arrigo Cellina, Mihai Vornicescu

Publication date 19 November 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jdeq.1997.3376

zbMATH Keywords

calculus of variationsdiscontinuous right-hand sideexistencegradient flowsubdifferentialuniqueness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discontinuous ordinary differential equations (34A36) Gradient-like behavior; isolated (locally maximal) invariant sets; attractors, repellers for topological dynamical systems (37B35)

Review text

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the theory of existence of solutions to ordinary differential equations in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), when the right hand side of the equation is not necessarily continuous. More precisely the authors study existence and uniqueness of solutions for the equation \(x'= \nabla u(x)\) when \(u\) is not necessarily differentiable everywhere. This problem is closely related with (multidimensional) calculus of variations.

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