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Lecture Notes on Gradient Flows and Optimal Transport

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2010-09-21 v1 Analysis of PDEs Differential Geometry Probability

Abstract

We present a short overview on the strongest variational formulation for gradient flows of geodesically λ\lambda-convex functionals in metric spaces, with applications to diffusion equations in Wasserstein spaces of probability measures. These notes are based on a series of lectures given by the second author for the Summer School "Optimal transportation: Theory and applications" in Grenoble during the week of June 22-26, 2009.

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@article{arxiv.1009.3737,
  title  = {Lecture Notes on Gradient Flows and Optimal Transport},
  author = {Sara Daneri and Giuseppe Savaré},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.3737},
  year   = {2010}
}
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