Event time:
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 12:15pm to 1:15pm
Location:
LOM 206
Speaker:
Janna Lierl
Speaker affiliation:
University of Connecticut
Event description:
In this talk we consider the gradient flow for the Boltzmann entropy on the Wasserstein space of probability measures supported on a subset of Euclidean space, Riemannian manifolds, or an RCD space. For a large class of non-convex smooth subsets, we show that the gradient flow for the Boltzmann entropy exists - despite the fact that the entropy is not semiconvex - and coincides with the heat flow with Neumann boundary conditions. This is joint work with K.-T. Sturm.
Special note:
Analysis Seminar