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Gradient Flows for Semiconvex Functions on Metric Measure Spaces - Existence, Uniqueness and Lipschitz Continuity

Metric Geometry 2017-12-21 v4

Abstract

Given any continuous, lower bounded and κ\kappa-convex function VV on a metric measure space (X,d,m)(X,d,m) which is infinitesimally Hilbertian and satisfies some synthetic lower bound for the Ricci curvature in the sense of Lott-Sturm-Villani, we prove existence and uniqueness for the (downward) gradient flow for VV. Moreover, we prove Lipschitz continuity of the flow w.r.t. the starting point d(xt,xt)eκtd(x0,x0).d(x_t,x'_t)\le e^{-\kappa\, t} d(x_0,x_0').

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@article{arxiv.1410.3966,
  title  = {Gradient Flows for Semiconvex Functions on Metric Measure Spaces - Existence, Uniqueness and Lipschitz Continuity},
  author = {Karl-Theodor Sturm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.3966},
  year   = {2017}
}

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to appear in Proc. AMS