A Lagrangian approach to totally dissipative evolutions in Wasserstein spaces

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Authors: Giulia Cavagnari, Giuseppe Savaré, Giacomo E. Sodini

Publication date: 9 May 2023

Abstract: We introduce and study the class of totally dissipative multivalued probability vector fields (MPVF)

on the Wasserstein space

(m a t h c a l P_{2} (m a t h s f X), W_{2})

of Euclidean or Hilbertian probability measures. We show that such class of MPVFs is in one to one correspondence with law-invariant dissipative operators in a Hilbert space

L^{2} (O m e g a, m a t h c a l B, m a t h b b P; m a t h s f X)

of random variables, preserving a natural maximality property. This allows us to import in the Wasserstein framework many of the powerful tools from the theory of maximal dissipative operators in Hilbert spaces, deriving existence, uniqueness, stability, and approximation results for the flow generated by a maximal totally dissipative MPVF and the equivalence of its Eulerian and Lagrangian characterizations. We will show that demicontinuous single-valued probability vector fields satisfying a metric dissipativity condition are in fact totally dissipative. Starting from a sufficiently rich set of discrete measures, we will also show how to recover a unique maximal totally dissipative version of a MPVF, proving that its flow provides a general mean field characterization of the asymptotic limits of the corresponding family of discrete particle systems.Such an approach also reveals new interesting structural properties for gradient flows of displacement convex functionals with a core of discrete measures dense in energy.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimal transportation (49Q22) Measure-preserving transformations (28D05) Initial value problems, existence, uniqueness, continuous dependence and continuation of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34A12) Ordinary differential inclusions (34A60) Linear accretive operators, dissipative operators, etc. (47B44) Generalized ordinary differential equations (measure-differential equations, set-valued differential equations, etc.) (34A06)

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