Transport Energy

arXiv1909.04417MaRDI QIDQ6325007FDOQ6325007

Publication date: 10 September 2019

Abstract: We introduce the emph{transport energy} functional

m a t h c a l E

(a variant of the Bouchitt'e-Buttazzo-Seppecher shape optimization functional) and we prove that its unique minimizer is the optimal transport density

m u^{*}

, i.e., the solution of Monge-Kantorovich equations. We study the gradient flow of

m a t h c a l E

showing that

m u^{*}

is the unique global attractor of the flow. We introduce a two parameter family

{m a t h c a l E_{l a m b d a, d e l t a}}_{l a m b d a, d e l t a > 0}

of strictly convex functionals approximating

m a t h c a l E

and we prove the convergence of the minimizers

m u_{l a m b d a, d e l t a}^{*}

of

m a t h c a l E_{l a m b d a, d e l t a}

to

m u^{*}

as we let

d e l t a o 0^{+}

and

l a m b d a o 0^{+} .

We derive an evolution system of fully non-linear PDEs as gradient flow of

m a t h c a l E_{l a m b d a, d e l t a}

in

L^{2}

, showing existence and uniqueness of solutions. All the trajectories of the flow converge in

W_{0}^{1, p}

to the unique minimizer

m u_{l a m b d a, d e l t a}^{*}

of

m a t h c a l E_{l a m b d a, d e l t a} .

Finally, we characterize

m u_{l a m b d a, d e l t a}^{*}

by a non-linear system of PDEs which is a perturbation of Monge-Kantorovich equations by means of a p-Laplacian.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Variational inequalities (49J40) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences (58E50)

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