From Diffusion to Reaction via $\Gamma$-Convergence

DOI10.1137/090781474zbMath1221.35045arXiv0912.5077WikidataQ59874013 ScholiaQ59874013MaRDI QIDQ2999876

Giuseppe Savaré, Marco Veneroni, Mark Adriaan Peletier

Publication date: 17 May 2011

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.5077

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet formsscale bridgingMosco-convergenceactivation energyhigh-energy limitdouble wellenthalpy functionKramers-Smoluchowski equationvariational evolution equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35B25: Singular perturbations in context of PDEs

35K57: Reaction-diffusion equations

49J45: Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation

80A30: Chemical kinetics in thermodynamics and heat transfer

60J70: Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.)

49S05: Variational principles of physics

35K51: Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic systems

35Q84: Fokker-Planck equations

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