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Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-08 Amir Mahmood , Saima Parveen

We study evolution equations on metric graphs with reservoirs, that is graphs where a one-dimensional interval is associated to each edge and, in addition, the vertices are able to store and exchange mass with these intervals. Focusing on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Georg Heinze , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann , André Schlichting

This is the first of a series of papers devoted to a thorough analysis of the class of gradient flows in a metric space $(X,\mathsf{d})$ that can be characterized by Evolution Variational Inequalities. We present new results concerning the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Matteo Muratori , Giuseppe Savaré

This paper introduces new methods to study the long time behaviour of the generalised gradient flow associated with a solution of the critical equation for mechanical Hamiltonian system posed on the flat torus $\mathbb{T}^d$. For this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Paolo Albano , Piermarco Cannarsa , Wei Cheng , Cristian Mendico

We investigate a singular perturbation for Hamilton-Jacobi equations in an open subset of two dimensional Euclidean space, where the set is determined through a Hamiltonian function and the Hamilton-Jacobi equations are the dynamic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-31 Taiga Kumagai

The paper considers a manifold $M$ evolving under the Ricci flow and establishes a series of gradient estimates for positive solutions of the heat equation on $M$. Among other results, we prove Li-Yau-type inequalities in this context. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-04 Mihai Bailesteanu , Xiaodong Cao , Artem Pulemotov

This paper is devoted to the study of flows associated to non-smooth vector fields. We prove the well-posedness of regular Lagrangian flows associated to vector fields $\mathbf{B}=(\mathbf{B}^1,...,\mathbf{B}^d)\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Quoc-Hung Nguyen

In this paper, by maximum principle and cutoff function, we investigate gradient estimates for positive solutions to two nonlinear parabolic equations under Ricci flow. The related Harnack inequalities are deduced. An result about positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Wen Wang , Hui Zhou

Gradient flows of the Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence, such as the Fokker--Planck equation and Stein Variational Gradient Descent, evolve a distribution toward a target density known only up to a normalizing constant. We introduce new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-09 Elias Hess-Childs , Dejan Slepčev , Lantian Xu

The gradient-flow dynamics of an arbitrary geometric quantity is derived using a generalization of Darcy's Law. We consider flows in both Lagrangian and Eulerian formulations. The Lagrangian formulation includes a dissipative modification…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-04-28 Darryl D. Holm , Vakhtang Putkaradze , Cesare Tronci

It is well-known that many diffusion equations can be recast as Wasserstein gradient flows. Moreover, in recent years, by modifying the Wasserstein distance appropriately, this technique has been transferred to further evolution equations…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Kaveh Bashiri , Anton Bovier

We consider a general formulation of gradient flow evolution for problems whose natural framework is the one of metric spaces. The applications we deal with are concerned with the evolution of {\it capacitary measures} with respect to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Dorin Bucur , Giuseppe Buttazzo , Ulisse Stefanelli

In this paper, we consider gradient estimates for two type of nonlinear parabolic equations under the Ricci flow: one is the equation $$u_t=\Delta u+au\log u+bu$$ with $a,b$ two real constants, the other is $$u_t=\Delta u+\lambda…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-14 Guangyue Huang , Bingqing Ma

We study both the local and global existence of a gradient flow of the Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen entropy functional on a Hilbert manifold of expanding maps of a circle equipped with a Sobolev norm in the tangent space of the manifold. We show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Miaohua Jiang

Global existence and long-time behavior of solutions to a family of nonlinear fourth order evolution equations on $R^d$ are studied. These equations constitute gradient flows for the perturbed information functionals $F[u] = 1/(2\alpha)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-06 Daniel Matthes , Robert J. McCann , Giuseppe Savar'e

This article deals with the so called GVF (Gradient Vector Flow) introduced by C. Xu, J.L. Prince . We give existence and uniqueness results for the front propagation flow for boundary extraction that was initiated by Paragios,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Laurence Guillot , Maïtine Bergounioux

In this paper we provide a variational characterisation for a class of non-linear evolution equations with constant non-negative Dirichlet boundary conditions on a bounded domain as gradient flows in the space of non-negative measures. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Matthias Erbar , Giulia Meglioli

This paper presents existence and uniqueness results for a class of parabolic systems with non linear diffusion and nonlocal interaction. These systems can be viewed as regular perturbations of Wasserstein gradient flows. Here we extend…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Maxime Laborde

Let $(M, g)$ be an dimensional complete Riemannian manifold. In this paper we prove local Li-Yau type gradient estimates for all positive solutions to the following nonlinear parabolic equation \begin{equation*} (\partial_t - \Delta_g +…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-05 Abimbola Abolarinwa

We proposed rigorous definitions of Radon measure solutions for boundary value problems of steady compressible Euler equations which modeling hypersonic-limit inviscid flows passing two-dimensional ramps, and their interactions with still…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Yunjuan Jin , Aifang Qu , Hairong Yuan