Authors: Luigi Ambrosio Stefano Lisini Giuseppe Savaré
Publish Date: 2006/07/08
Volume: 121, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-50
Abstract
In this paper we address the problem of stability of flows associated to a sequence of vector fields under minimal regularity requirements on the limit vector field that is supposed to be a gradient We apply this stability result to show the convergence of iterated compositions of optimal transport maps arising in the implicit time discretization with respect to the Wasserstein distance of nonlinear evolution equations of a diffusion type Finally we use these convergence results to study the gradient flow of a particular class of polyconvex functionals recently considered by Gangbo Evans and Savin We solve some open problems raised in their paper and obtain existence and uniqueness of solutions under weaker regularity requirements and with no upper bound on the jacobian determinant of the initial datum
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