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We present a finite element variational integrator for compressible flows. The numerical scheme is derived by discretizing, in a structure preserving way, the Lie group formulation of fluid dynamics on diffeomorphism groups and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Evan S. Gawlik , François Gay-Balmaz

Motivated by the direct method in the calculus of variations in $L^{\infty}$, our main result identifies the notion of convexity characterizing the weakly$^*$ lower semicontinuity of nonlocal supremal functionals: Cartesian level convexity.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-18 Carolin Kreisbeck , Antonella Ritorto , Elvira Zappale

The metric and potential associated with the gradient property of renormalisation group flow in multiscalar models in $d=4-\varepsilon$ dimensions are studied. The metric is identified with the Zamolodchikov metric of nearly marginal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-13 William H. Pannell , Andreas Stergiou

We present a structure-preserving Eulerian algorithm for solving $L^2$-gradient flows and a structure-preserving Lagrangian algorithm for solving generalized diffusions. Both algorithms employ neural networks as tools for spatial…

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We study basic properties of flow equivalence on one-dimensional compact metric spaces with a particular emphasis on isotopy in the group of (self-) flow equivalences on such a space. In particular, we show that an orbit-preserving such map…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Mike Boyle , Toke Meier Carlsen , Søren Eilers

We consider trajectories where the sign of the derivative of each entry is opposite to that of the corresponding entry in the gradient of an energy function. We show that this condition guarantees convergence when the energy function is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Julien M. Hendrickx , Balazs Gerencser , Baris Fidan

In this paper, the inherent gradient flow structures of thermo-poro-visco-elastic processes in porous media are examined for the first time. In the first part, a modelling framework is introduced aiming for describing such processes as…

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The equality between dissipation and energy drop is a structural property of gradient-flow dynamics. The classical implicit Euler scheme fails to reproduce this equality at the discrete level. We discuss two modifications of the Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Ansgar Jüngel , Ulisse Stefanelli , Lara Trussardi

Generalized Lagrangian mean theories are used to analyze the interactions between mean flows and fluctuations, where the decomposition is based on a Lagrangian description of the flow. A systematic geometric framework was recently developed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Marcel Oliver , Sergiy Vasylkevych

We investigate a variational approach to nonpotential perturbations of gradient flows of nonconvex energies in Hilbert spaces. We prove existence of solutions to elliptic-in-time regularizations of gradient flows by combining the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Stefano Melchionna

Flows are a topological model of concurrency which enables to encode the notion of refinement of observation and to understand the homological properties of branchings and mergings of execution paths. Roughly speaking, they are Grandis'…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Philippe Gaucher

We study the Wasserstein gradient flow of semi-discrete energies in the space of probability measures, that is functionals depending on two measures-one being an absolutely continuous density and the other an atomic measure. These energies…

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Laplacian flows model the rate of change of each node's state as being proportional to the difference between its value and that of its neighbors. Typically, these flows capture diffusion or synchronization dynamics and are well-studied.…

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In 1964, Eells and Sampson proved the celebrated long-time existence and convergence for the harmonic map heat flow into non-positively curved Riemannian manifolds. In 1992, Gromov and Schoen initiated the study of harmonic maps into…

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We propose the use of the functional determinant of geometric operators in constructing an entropy functional associated to geometric flows. Our approach is based on the direct computation of the partition function, with a well-defined set…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Christopher Lin

We prove that the geodesic flow on a compact locally CAT(-1) space has the weak specification property, and give various applications. We show that every H\"older potential on the space of geodesics has a unique equilibrium state. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-04-22 David Constantine , Jean-François Lafont , Daniel J. Thompson

This article is devoted to presenting an abstract theory on time-fractional gradient flows for nonconvex energy functionals in Hilbert spaces. Main results consist of local and global in time existence of (continuous) strong solutions to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Goro Akagi , Yoshihito Nakajima

In this paper, we present an alternate, elementary proof of the local Lipschitz regularity of the suitable weak solution of heat flow of harmonic maps into CAT(0)-metric spaces, whose existence was established by Lin, Segatti, Sire, and…

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