Weak solutions for gradient flows under monotonicity constraints
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arXiv1908.10111MaRDI QIDQ6324252FDOQ6324252
Authors: Matteo Negri, Masato Kimura 
Publication date: 27 August 2019
Abstract: We consider the gradient flow of a quadratic non-autonomous energy under monotonicity constraint in time and natural regularity assumptions. We provide first a notion of weak solution, inspired by the theory of curves of maximal slope, and then existence (employing time-discrete schemes with different "implementations" of the constraint), uniqueness, power and energy identity, comparison principle and continuous dependence. As a byproduct, we show that the energy identity gives a selection criterion for the (non-unique) evolutions obtained by other notions of solutions. We finally show that, for autonomous energies, the solutions obtained with the monotonicity constraint actually coincide with those obtained with a fixed obstacle, given by the initial datum.
Unilateral problems for nonlinear parabolic equations and variational inequalities with nonlinear parabolic operators (35K86) Variational inequalities (49J40)
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