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Harmonic heat flow, formal and rigorous

Let $ (M,g) $ be a smooth Riemann manifold without boundary, $ S^{n-1} $ is an $ n $-dimensional sphere, and $ T>0 $. Consider a weak solution $ u:M\times[0,T]\to S^{n+1} $ of $$ \partial_tu-\Delta ...
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Is it true that $\xi \in \partial G (v)$ implies $\frac{\xi}{F'(\phi (v))} \in \partial \phi (v)$?

I am reading the introduction of Chapter 10 in the book Gradient Flows by Ambrosio and his coauthors. As we have seen in Section 1.4, in the classical theory of subdifferential calculus for proper, ...
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Dynamical formulation of the 2-Wasserstein distance for *discrete* matrix-valued measures

TL;DR: I want to find a definition generalizing "$t \mapsto \frac{1}{m} \sum_{k = 1}^{m} \delta_{x_k(t)}$ is a Wasserstein gradient flow" to matrix-valued probability measures. Let $(X, d)$ ...
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A question about strong slopes (nonsmooth analysis)

Context. I'm reading the manuscrip "Nonlinear Error Bounds via a Change of Function" by Dominique Azé and Jean-Noël Corvellec (J Optim Theory Appl 2016), and I'm having a hard time ...
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Metric / strong slope restriction of function on unit ball in $\mathbb R^m$

Diclaimer. I'm not sure this is the right venue for this question, but I'll give it a try Definition [Strong / metric slope]. Given a complete metric space $(M,d)$ and a function $f:M \to (-\infty,+\...
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Gradient flows: convex potential vs. contractive flow?

Take a $\mathcal C^2$ potential $V:\mathbb R^d\to \mathbb R$, and assume that it is bounded from below (say $\min V=0$ for simplicity, so that $V\geq 0$). Consider the autonomous gradient-flow $$ \dot ...
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