Constrained steepest descent in the 2-Wasserstein metric

DOI10.4007/annals.2003.157.807zbMath1038.49040arXivmath/0312063OpenAlexW2105137465MaRDI QIDQ1423979

Eric Anders Carlen, Wilfrid Gangbo

Publication date: 8 March 2004

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0312063

zbMATH Keywords

entropyRiemannian geometryconstrained variational problemsexistence of minimizersmass transportation2-Wasserstein metricconstraint manifoldEuler-Lagrangian equationconvexity of functionalsnonlinear kinetic Fokker-Planck equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Existence theories for free problems in two or more independent variables (49J10) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H15) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99)

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