Large deviations and gradient flows

DOI10.1098/rsta.2012.0341zbMath1292.82023arXiv1201.4601WikidataQ51140211 ScholiaQ51140211MaRDI QIDQ5494566

Nicolas Dirr, Stefan Adams, Johannes Zimmer, Mark Adriaan Peletier

Publication date: 28 July 2014

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4601

zbMATH Keywords

Wasserstein gradient flow; equilibrium situation; hydrodynamic limit large-deviation theory; non-equilibrium passage

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35K55: Nonlinear parabolic equations

60K35: Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory

60J60: Diffusion processes

60F10: Large deviations

82C10: Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general)

35R60: PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations

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