Gradient Flows [electronic resource] : in Metric Spaces and in the Space of Probability Measures / by Luigi Ambrosio, Nicola Gigli, Giuseppe Savaré.
Series: Lectures in Mathematics ETH ZürichPublisher: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2008Edition: Second EditionDescription: IX, 334 p. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783764387228
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- QA299.6-433

Notation -- Notation -- Gradient Flow in Metric Spaces -- Curves and Gradients in Metric Spaces -- Existence of Curves of Maximal Slope and their Variational Approximation -- Proofs of the Convergence Theorems -- Uniqueness, Generation of Contraction Semigroups, Error Estimates -- Gradient Flow in the Space of Probability Measures -- Preliminary Results on Measure Theory -- The Optimal Transportation Problem -- The Wasserstein Distance and its Behaviour along Geodesics -- Absolutely Continuous Curves in p(X) and the Continuity Equation -- Convex Functionals in p(X) -- Metric Slope and Subdifferential Calculus in (X) -- Gradient Flows and Curves of Maximal Slope in p(X).