A variational principle for gradient flows in metric spaces

DOI10.1016/j.crma.2011.11.002zbMath1236.49065MaRDI QIDQ654538

Antonio Segatti, Giuseppe Savaré, Ulisse Stefanelli, Riccarda Rossi

Publication date: 28 December 2011

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crma.2011.11.002

zbMATH Keywords

dynamic programming principle; curves of maximal slope; geodesically convex energies; gradient-flow evolution in metric spaces; Hamilton--Jacobi equation; nonlinear evolution PDEs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49K20: Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations

49L20: Dynamic programming in optimal control and differential games

93C10: Nonlinear systems in control theory

49K27: Optimality conditions for problems in abstract spaces

35Q84: Fokker-Planck equations

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