A differential perspective on gradient flows on CAT ()-spaces and applications

DOI10.1007/S12220-021-00701-5MaRDI QIDQ2665587zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nicola Gigli, Francesco Nobili

Publication date 19 November 2021

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12952

zbMATH Keywords

CAT spacesgradient flowsKorevaar-Schoen energyLaplacian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

Abstract: We review the theory of Gradient Flows in the framework of convex and lower semicontinuous functionals on $sfCAT(kappa)$-spaces and prove that they can be characterized by the same differential inclusion ${y_t}^{\prime }in-partia{l}^{-}sfE(y_t)$ one uses in the smooth setting and more precisely that ${y_t}^{\prime }$ selects the element of minimal norm in $-partia{l}^{-}sfE(y_t)$. This generalizes previous results in this direction where the energy was also assumed to be Lipschitz. We then apply such result to the Korevaar-Schoen energy functional on the space of $L^2$ and $sfCAT(0)$ valued maps: we define the Laplacian of such $L^2$ map as the element of minimal norm in $-partia{l}^{-}sfE(u)$, provided it is not empty. The theory of gradient flows ensures that the set of maps admitting a Laplacian is $L^2$-dense. Basic properties of this Laplacian are then studied.

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