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We consider asymptotically autonomous semilinear parabolic equations u_t + Au = f(t,u). Suppose that $f(t,.)\to f^\pm$ as $t\to\pm\infty$, where the semiflows induced by \label{eq:140602-1511} u_t + Au = f^\pm(u) \tag{*} are gradient-like.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Axel Jänig

In this paper we provide a different approach for existence of the variational solutions of the gradient flows associated to functionals on Sobolev spaces studied in \cite{BDDMS20}. The crucial condition is the convexity of the functional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Seonghak Kim , Baisheng Yan

In this paper we consider a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation with asymptotically small parameters. It describes the diffusion of finite-size particles in the presence of a fixed distribution of obstacles in the limit of low-volume fraction.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Maria Bruna , Martin Burger , Helene Ranetbauer , Marie-Therese Wolfram

In this work, we study a fourth order exponential equation, $u_t=\Delta e^{-\Delta u},$ derived from thin film growth on crystal surface in multiple space dimensions. We use the gradient flow method in metric space to characterize the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Yuan Gao , Jian-Guo Liu , Xin Yang Lu

In this paper we consider the non local evolution equation $$ \frac{\partial u(x,t)}{\partial t} + u(x,t)= \int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}J(x-y)f(u(y,t))\rho(y)dy+ h(x). %\,\,\, h \geq 0. $$ We show that this equation defines a continuous flow in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Severino Horácio da Silva , Antônio Luiz Pereira

We consider a nonlinear degenerate convection-diffusion equation with inhomogeneous convection and prove that its entropy solutions in the sense of Kru\v{z}kov are obtained as the - a posteriori unique - limit points of the JKO variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-06 Marco Di Francesco , Daniel Matthes

This paper addresses the gradient flow -- the continuous-time representation of the gradient method -- with the smooth approximation of a non-differentiable objective function and presents convergence analysis framework. Similar to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Mitsuru Toyoda , Akatsuki Nishioka , Mirai Tanaka

Non-linear versions of log-Sobolev inequalities, that link a free energy to its dissipation along the corresponding Wasserstein gradient flow (i.e. corresponds to Polyak-Lojasiewicz inequalities in this context), are known to provide global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Pierre Monmarché , Julien Reygner

In this paper we study a gradient flow approach to the problem of quantization of measures in one dimension. By embedding our problem in $L^2$, we find a continuous version of it that corresponds to the limit as the number of particles…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Emanuele Caglioti , François Golse , Mikaela Iacobelli

We provide Lyapunov-like characterizations of boundedness and convergence of non-trivial solutions for a class of systems with unstable invariant sets. Examples of systems to which the results may apply include interconnections of stable…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-06-12 A. Gorban , I. Tyukin , E. Steur , H. Nijmeijer

We study the problem of convergence of the normalized Ricci flow evolving on a compact manifold $\Omega$ without boundary. In \cite{KS10, KS15} we derived, via PDE techniques, global-in-time existence of the classical solution and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Nikos I. Kavallaris , Takashi Suzuki

We show that the elliptic problem $\Delta u+f(u)=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 1$, with $f\in C^1(\mathbb{R})$ and $f(0)=0$ does not have nontrivial stable solutions that decay to zero at infinity, provided that $f$ is nonincreasing near the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Christos Sourdis

This study focuses on a Wasserstein-type gradient flow, which represents an optimization process of a continuous model of a Deep Neural Network (DNN). First, we establish the existence of a minimizer for an average loss of the model under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Noboru Isobe

In this paper we prove convergence to a steady state as $t\to\infty$ for solutions to the subdiffusion equation \[ \partial_t^\alpha u - \mathbb{L} u = q(x)u - p(x)f(u) + r \] with the exponential ($\alpha=1$) or power law…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Barbara Kaltenbacher

We study the $L^2$-gradient flows, $\partial_t u-\mathrm{div}(\mathrm{D}f(x,\mathbb{A}u))=0$, of functionals of the type $\int_{\Omega}f(x,\mathbb{A}u)\,\mathrm{d}x$, where $f$ is a convex function of linear growth and $\mathbb{A}$ is some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-18 David Meyer

We consider the semilinear parabolic equation $u_t=u_{xx}+f(u)$ on the real line, where $f$ is a locally Lipschitz function on $\mathbb{R}.$ We prove that if a solution $u$ of this equation is bounded and its initial value $u(x,0)$ has…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Antoine Pauthier , Peter Poláčik

In this paper, we consider a manifold evolving by a general geometric flow and study parabolic equation \[ (\Delta -q(x,t)-\partial_t)u(x,t)=A(u(x,t)),\quad (x,t)\in M\times [0,T]. \] We establish space-time gradient estimates for positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Guangwen Zhao

We provide some counterexamples concerning the uniqueness and regularity of weak solutions to the initial-boundary value problem for gradient flows of certain strongly polyconvex functionals by showing that such a problem can possess a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Baisheng Yan

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

We consider the asymptotic behavior of the soltion to the wave equation with time-dependent damping and analytic nonlinearity. Our main goal is to prove the convergence of a global solution to an equilibrium as time goes to infinity by…

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