Gradient flows and entropy inequalities in dissipative quantum systems
Probability Seminar
Jun 27, 2019, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Jan Maas, IST Austria
At the end of the 1990s it was discovered by
Jordan/Kinderlehrer/Otto that the diffusion equation is a gradient flow
in the space of probability measures, where the driving functional is
the Boltzmann-Shannon entropy, and the dissipation mechanism is given by
the 2-Wasserstein metric from optimal transport. This result has been
the starting point for striking developments at the...