Entropy dissipation of Fokker-Planck equations on graphs
Dynamical Systems
2017-09-26 v3
Abstract
We study the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation on graphs, which is the gradient flow in the space of probability measures supported on the nodes with respect to the discrete Wasserstein metric. The energy functional driving the gradient flow consists of a Boltzmann entropy, a linear potential and a quadratic interaction energy. We show that the solution converges to the Gibbs measures exponentially fast with a rate that can be given analytically. The continuous analog of this asymptotic rate is related to the Yano's formula.
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@article{arxiv.1701.04841,
title = {Entropy dissipation of Fokker-Planck equations on graphs},
author = {Shui-Nee Chow and Wuchen Li and Haomin Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.04841},
year = {2017}
}