Gradient flows of time-dependent functionals in metric spaces and applications to PDEs

DOI10.1007/S00605-017-1037-YMaRDI QIDQ681476zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lucas C. F. Ferreira, Julio C. Valencia-Guevara

Publication date 12 February 2018

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04161

zbMATH Keywords

gradient flowsmeasure solutionsoptimal transporttime-dependent functionals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spaces of measures, convergence of measures (28A33) Nonlinear differential equations in abstract spaces (34G20) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Qxx) Operator partial differential equations (= PDEs on finite-dimensional spaces for abstract space valued functions) (35R20) Variational inequalities (49J40) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces (58Exx) Diffusion processes (60J60)

Abstract: We develop a gradient-flow theory for time-dependent functionals defined in abstract metric spaces. Global well-posedness and asymptotic behavior of solutions are provided. Conditions on functionals and metric spaces allow to consider the Wasserstein space $mathscr{P}_2(mathbb{R}^d)$ and apply the results for a large class of PDEs with time- dependent coefficients like confinement and interaction potentials and diffusion. Our results can be seen as an extension of those in Ambrosio-Gigli-Savar'e (2005)[2] to the case of time-dependent functionals. For that matter, we need to consider some residual terms, time-versions of concepts like $lambda$-convexity, time-differentiability of minimizers for Moreau-Yosida approximations, and a priori estimates with explicit time-dependence for De Giorgi interpolation. Here, functionals can be unbounded from below and satisfy a type of $lambda$-convexity that changes as the time evolves.

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