Probing the origin of Wasserstein gradient flows
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Mon, 16/11/2009 17:00 |
Mark Peletier (Technical University Eindhoven) |
Partial Differential Equations Seminar  |
Gibson 1st Floor SR |
| The talk starts with the observation that many well-known systems of diffusive type can be written as Wasserstein gradient flows. The aim of the talk is to understand _why_ this is the case. We give an answer that uses a connection between diffusive PDE systems and systems of Brownian particles, and we show how the Wasserstein metric arises in this context. This is joint work with Johannes Zimmer, Nicolas Dirr, and Stefan Adams. | |||