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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811819503321

Autore

Ambrosio Luigi

Titolo

Nonlinear diffusion equations and curvature conditions in metric measure spaces / / Luigi Ambrosio, Andrea Mondino, Giuseppe Savaré

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-4704-5513-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 121 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; ; Number 1270

Classificazione

49J5249Q2035K5558J3535K9031C2558B20

Disciplina

514.32

Soggetti

Metric spaces

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contraction and convexity via Hamiltonian estimates : an heuristic argument -- Dirichlet forms, homogeneous spaces and nonlinear diffusion -- Backward and forward linearizations of nonlinear diffusion -- Preliminaries -- Absolutely continuous curves in Wasserstein spaces and continuity inequalities in a metric setting -- Weighted energy functionals along absolutely continuous curves -- Dynamic Kantorovich potentials, continuity equation and dual weighted Cheeger energies -- The RCD* (K, N) condition and its characterizations through weighted convexity and evolution variational inequalities -- The Bakry-Émery condition -- Nonlinear diffusion equations and action estimates -- The equivalence between BE(K, N) and RCD* (K, N).