Large deviations and gradient flows

DOI10.1098/rsta.2012.0341zbMath1292.82023arXiv1201.4601OpenAlexW3105506646WikidataQ51140211 ScholiaQ51140211MaRDI QIDQ5494566

Stefan Adams, Nicolas Dirr, 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 flowequilibrium situationhydrodynamic limit large-deviation theorynon-equilibrium passage

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Diffusion processes (60J60) Large deviations (60F10) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations (35R60)

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