Measure dynamics with Probability Vector Fields and sources
Abstract
We introduce a new formulation for differential equation describing dynamics of measures on an Euclidean space, that we call Measure Differential Equations with sources. They mix two different phenomena: on one side, a transport-type term, in which a vector field is replaced by a Probability Vector Field, that is a probability distribution on the tangent bundle; on the other side, a source term. Such new formulation allows to write in a unified way both classical transport and diffusion with finite speed, together with creation of mass. The main result of this article shows that, by introducing a suitable Wasserstein-like functional, one can ensure existence of solutions to Measure Differential Equations with sources under Lipschitz conditions. We also prove a uniqueness result under the following additional hypothesis: the measure dynamics needs to be compatible with dynamics of measures that are sums of Dirac masses.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1809.03042,
title = {Measure dynamics with Probability Vector Fields and sources},
author = {Benedetto Piccoli and Francesco Rossi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.03042},
year = {2018}
}