Well-posedness of evolution equations with time-dependent nonlinear mobility: a modified minimizing movement scheme

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Abstract: We prove the existence of nonnegative weak solutions to a class of second and fourth order nonautonomous nonlinear evolution equations with an explicitly time-dependent mobility function posed on the whole space mathbbRd, for arbitrary dge1. Exploiting a very formal gradient flow structure, the cornerstone of our proof is a modified version of the classical minimizing movement scheme for gradient flows. The mobility function is required to satisfy - at each time point separately - the conditions by which one can define a modified Wasserstein distance on the space of probability densities with finite second moment. The explicit dependency on the time variable is assumed to be at least of Lipschitz regularity. We also sketch possible extensions of our result to the case of bounded spatial domains and more general mobility functions.




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