Tuesday, March 6, 2012

1203.0676 (Manh Hong Duong et al.)

Wasserstein gradient flows from large deviations of thermodynamic limits    [PDF]

Manh Hong Duong, Vaios Laschos, Michiel Renger
We study the Fokker-Planck equation as the hydrodynamic limit of a stochastic particle system on one hand and as a Wasserstein gradient flow on the other. We write the rate functional, that characterizes the large deviations from the hydrodynamic limit, in a way that the free energy appears explicitly. Next we use this formulation via the contraction principle to prove that the discreet time rate functional is asymptotically equivalent in the Gamma-convergence sense to the functional derived from the Wasserstein gradient discretization scheme.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0676

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