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Gradient flows for non-smooth interaction potentials

Analysis of PDEs 2012-06-21 v1

Abstract

We deal with a nonlocal interaction equation describing the evolution of a particle density under the effect of a general symmetric pairwise interaction potential, not necessarily in convolution form. We describe the case of a convex (or \lambda-convex) potential, possibly not smooth at several points, generalizing the results of [CDFLS]. We also identify the cases in which the dynamic is still governed by the continuity equation with well-characterized nonlocal velocity field. Reference: [CDFLS] J. A. Carrillo, M. Di Francesco, A. Figalli, T. Laurent, D. Slepcev, Global-in-time weak measure solutions and finite-time aggregation for nonlocal interaction equations, Duke Math. J. 156 (2011), 229--271.

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@article{arxiv.1206.4453,
  title  = {Gradient flows for non-smooth interaction potentials},
  author = {José Antonio Carrillo and Stefano Lisini and Edoardo Mainini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.4453},
  year   = {2012}
}

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35 pages, 1 figure

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