Wasserstein geometry of porous medium equation
Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Volume 29 (2012) no. 2, p. 217-232

We study the porous medium equation with emphasis on q-Gaussian measures, which are generalizations of Gaussian measures by using power-law distribution. On the space of q-Gaussian measures, the porous medium equation is reduced to an ordinary differential equation for covariance matrix. We introduce a set of inequalities among functionals which gauge the difference between pairs of probability measures and are useful in the analysis of the porous medium equation. We show that any q-Gaussian measure provides a nontrivial pair attaining equality in these inequalities.

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anihpc.2011.10.003
Classification:  60D05,  46E27
Keywords: q-Gaussian measure, Porous medium equation, Functional inequality
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Takatsu, Asuka. Wasserstein geometry of porous medium equation. Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Volume 29 (2012) no. 2, pp. 217-232. doi : 10.1016/j.anihpc.2011.10.003. http://www.numdam.org/item/AIHPC_2012__29_2_217_0/

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