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A Trotter product formula for gradient flows in metric spaces

Analysis of PDEs 2010-05-07 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We prove a Trotter product formula for gradient flows in metric spaces. This result is applied to establish convergence in the L^2-Wasserstein metric of the splitting method for some Fokker-Planck equations and porous medium type equations perturbed by a potential.

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@article{arxiv.1005.0998,
  title  = {A Trotter product formula for gradient flows in metric spaces},
  author = {Philippe Clément and Jan Maas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.0998},
  year   = {2010}
}

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20 pages, submitted for publication