The optimal evolution of the free energy of interacting gases and its applications

DOI10.1016/S1631-073X(03)00289-9zbMath1095.49012MaRDI QIDQ1428306

Xiaosong Kang, Nassif Ghoussoub, Martial Agueh

Publication date: 25 March 2004

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

energy functional; Fisher information; Young function; HWBI inequalities; HWI inequalities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

46E35: Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems

35A15: Variational methods applied to PDEs

49Q20: Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting

35K65: Degenerate parabolic equations

49J45: Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation

60J45: Probabilistic potential theory

82C31: Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics

26D10: Inequalities involving derivatives and differential and integral operators

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