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Weak solutions to gradient flows of functionals with inhomogeneous growth in metric spaces

Analysis of PDEs 2023-07-26 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We use the framework of the first-order differential structure in metric measure spaces introduced by Gigli to define a notion of weak solutions to gradient flows of convex, lower semicontinuous and coercive functionals. We prove their existence and uniqueness and show that they are also variational solutions; in particular, this is an existence result for variational solutions. Then, we apply this technique in the case of a gradient flow of a functional with inhomogeneous growth.

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@article{arxiv.2307.13456,
  title  = {Weak solutions to gradient flows of functionals with inhomogeneous growth in metric spaces},
  author = {Wojciech Górny},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.13456},
  year   = {2023}
}

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29 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2103.13373