Optimal Transport Theory and Wasserstein Geometry for Gradient Flows in Metric Spaces

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author Revista, Zen
MFC, 10
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MFC, 10
contents <div>Mathematical Applications of Science Fiction</div> <div> </div> <p>We present a rigorous derivation of the existence and unique-<br>ness of gradient flows for semi-convex functionals on met-<br>ric measure spaces satisfying the Riemannian Curvature-<br>Dimension condition RCD∗(K, N ). By constructing a<br>motivic transport operator within the Wasserstein space<br>W2(X), we extend the Jordan-Kinderlehrer-Otto (JKO)<br>scheme to non-smooth structures exhibiting perfectoid sin-<br>gularities. We establish the Evolution Variational Inequal-<br>ity (EVI) for the generalized entropy functional, proving<br>K-contraction of the flow. Furthermore, we analyze the<br>spectral convergence of the discrete-time approximations<br>using a Hilbert-Schmidt embedding of the transport plans,<br>providing a robust framework for dissipative dynamics in<br>crystalline geometries. The analysis avoids standard co-<br>homological obstructions by utilizing a derived symplectic<br>formalism on the tangent bundle of the probability space.</p>
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spellingShingle Optimal Transport Theory and Wasserstein Geometry for Gradient Flows in Metric Spaces
Revista, Zen
MFC, 10
<div>Mathematical Applications of Science Fiction</div> <div> </div> <p>We present a rigorous derivation of the existence and unique-<br>ness of gradient flows for semi-convex functionals on met-<br>ric measure spaces satisfying the Riemannian Curvature-<br>Dimension condition RCD∗(K, N ). By constructing a<br>motivic transport operator within the Wasserstein space<br>W2(X), we extend the Jordan-Kinderlehrer-Otto (JKO)<br>scheme to non-smooth structures exhibiting perfectoid sin-<br>gularities. We establish the Evolution Variational Inequal-<br>ity (EVI) for the generalized entropy functional, proving<br>K-contraction of the flow. Furthermore, we analyze the<br>spectral convergence of the discrete-time approximations<br>using a Hilbert-Schmidt embedding of the transport plans,<br>providing a robust framework for dissipative dynamics in<br>crystalline geometries. The analysis avoids standard co-<br>homological obstructions by utilizing a derived symplectic<br>formalism on the tangent bundle of the probability space.</p>
title Optimal Transport Theory and Wasserstein Geometry for Gradient Flows in Metric Spaces
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18102234