Existence of weak solutions to a class of fourth order partial differential equations with Wasserstein gradient structure

DOI10.1007/S11118-016-9565-YzbMATH Open1373.35160arXiv1507.05507OpenAlexW2298483682MaRDI QIDQ345040FDOQ345040

Authors: Daniel Loibl, Daniel Matthes, Jonathan Zinsl 

Publication date: 25 November 2016

Published in: Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove the global-in-time existence of nonnegative weak solutions to a class of fourth order partial differential equations on a convex bounded domain in arbitrary spatial dimensions. Our proof relies on the formal gradient flow structure of the equation with respect to the $L^2$-Wasserstein distance on the space of probability measures. We construct a weak solution by approximation via the time-discrete minimizing movement scheme; necessary compactness estimates are derived by entropy-dissipation methods. Our theory essentially comprises the thin film and Derrida-Lebowitz-Speer-Spohn equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05507

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zbMATH Keywords

Wasserstein distancegradient flowweak solutionfourth-order equationsminimizing movement scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Initial value problems for higher-order parabolic equations (35K30)

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