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Spherical Hellinger-Kantorovich gradient flows

Functional Analysis 2019-04-03 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We study nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations of Fokker-Planck type which can be viewed as gradient flows with respect to the recently introduced spherical Hellinger-Kantorovich distance. The driving entropy is not assumed to be geodesically convex. We prove solvability of the problem and the entropy-entropy production inequality, which implies exponential convergence to the equilibrium. As a corollary, we obtain some related results for the Wasserstein gradient flows. We also deduce transportation inequalities in the spirit of Talagrand, Otto and Villani for the spherical and conic Hellinger-Kantorovich distances.

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@article{arxiv.1809.03430,
  title  = {Spherical Hellinger-Kantorovich gradient flows},
  author = {Stanislav Kondratyev and Dmitry Vorotnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.03430},
  year   = {2019}
}
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