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ESAIM: COCV
Volume 19, Number 4, October-December 2013
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Page(s) | 1166 - 1188 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2013049 | |
Published online | 13 August 2013 |
Wasserstein gradient flows from large deviations of many-particle limits
1
Department of Mathematical sciences, University of Bath, Claverton
Down, Bath
BA2 7AY, United
Kingdom
2
ICMS and Dep. of Math. and Comp. Sciences, TU Eindhoven, Den
Dolech 2, 5612 AZ
Eindhoven, the
Netherlands
d.r.m.renger@tue.nl
Received:
19
March
2012
Revised:
4
January
2013
We study the Fokker–Planck equation as the many-particle limit of a stochastic particle system on one hand and as a Wasserstein gradient flow on the other. We write the path-space rate functional, which characterises the large deviations from the expected trajectories, in such a way that the free energy appears explicitly. Next we use this formulation via the contraction principle to prove that the discrete time rate functional is asymptotically equivalent in the Gamma-convergence sense to the functional derived from the Wasserstein gradient discretization scheme.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35A15 / 5Q84
Key words: Wasserstein / gradient flows / Fokker–Planck / Gamma-convergence / large deviations
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