Calculus and heat flow in metric measure spaces and applications to spaces with Ricci bounds from below

DOI10.1007/S00222-013-0456-1zbMATH Open1312.53056arXiv1106.2090OpenAlexW3105915587MaRDI QIDQ2436637FDOQ2436637

Authors: Nicola Gigli, Luigi Ambrosio, Giuseppe Savaré 

Publication date: 25 February 2014

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is devoted to a deeper understanding of the heat flow and to the refinement of calculus tools on metric measure spaces (X,d,m). Our main results are: - A general study of the relations between the Hopf-Lax semigroup and Hamilton-Jacobi equation in metric spaces (X,d). - The equivalence of the heat flow in L^2(X,m) generated by a suitable Dirichlet energy and the Wasserstein gradient flow of the relative entropy functional in the space of probability measures P(X). - The proof of density in energy of Lipschitz functions in the Sobolev space W^{1,2}(X,d,m). - A fine and very general analysis of the differentiability properties of a large class of Kantorovich potentials, in connection with the optimal transport problem. Our results apply in particular to spaces satisfying Ricci curvature bounds in the sense of Lott & Villani [30] and Sturm [39,40], and require neither the doubling property nor the validity of the local Poincar'e inequality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.2090

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zbMATH Keywords

metric measure spacesRicci boundsKantorovich potentialsspecial functionals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonsmooth analysis (49J52) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

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