In this paper we discuss how to define an appropriate notion of weak topology in the Wasserstein space $(mathcal{P}_2(H),W_2)$ of Borel probability measures with finite quadratic moment on a separable Hilbert space $H$. We will show that such a topology inherits many features of the usual weak topology in Hilbert spaces, in particular the weak closedness of geodesically convex closed sets and the Opial property characterizing weakly convergent sequences. We apply this notion to the approximation of fixed points for a non-expansive map in a weakly closed subset of $mathcal{P}_2(H)$ and of minimizers of a lower semicontinuous and geodesically convex functional $phi:mathcal{P}_2(H)to(-infty,+infty]$ attaining its minimum. In particular, we will show that every solution to the Wasserstein gradient flow of $phi$ weakly converge to a minimizer of $phi$ as the time goes to $+infty$. Similarly, if $phi$ is also convex along generalized geodesics, every sequence generated by the proximal point algorithm converges to a minimizer of $phi$ with respect to the weak topology of $mathcal{P}_2(H)$.
{"title":"Weak topology and Opial property in Wasserstein spaces, with applications to gradient flows and proximal point algorithms of geodesically convex functionals","authors":"E. Naldi, Giuseppe Savaré","doi":"10.4171/rlm/955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/rlm/955","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we discuss how to define an appropriate notion of weak topology in the Wasserstein space $(mathcal{P}_2(H),W_2)$ of Borel probability measures with finite quadratic moment on a separable Hilbert space $H$. We will show that such a topology inherits many features of the usual weak topology in Hilbert spaces, in particular the weak closedness of geodesically convex closed sets and the Opial property characterizing weakly convergent sequences. We apply this notion to the approximation of fixed points for a non-expansive map in a weakly closed subset of $mathcal{P}_2(H)$ and of minimizers of a lower semicontinuous and geodesically convex functional $phi:mathcal{P}_2(H)to(-infty,+infty]$ attaining its minimum. In particular, we will show that every solution to the Wasserstein gradient flow of $phi$ weakly converge to a minimizer of $phi$ as the time goes to $+infty$. Similarly, if $phi$ is also convex along generalized geodesics, every sequence generated by the proximal point algorithm converges to a minimizer of $phi$ with respect to the weak topology of $mathcal{P}_2(H)$.","PeriodicalId":54497,"journal":{"name":"Rendiconti Lincei-Matematica e Applicazioni","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41740698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper deals with a general system of equations and conditions arising from a mathematical model of prostate cancer growth with chemotherapy and antiangiogenic therapy that has been recently introduced and analyzed (see [P. Colli et al., Mathematical analysis and simulation study of a phase-field model of prostate cancer growth with chemotherapy and antiangiogenic therapy effects, Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 30 (2020), 1253–1295]). The related system includes two evolutionary operator equations involving fractional powers of selfadjoint, nonnegative, unbounded linear operators having compact resolvents. Both equations contain nonlinearities and in particular the equation describing the dynamics of the tumor phase variable has the structure of a Allen–Cahn equation with double-well potential and additional nonlinearity depending also on the other variable, which represents the nutrient concentration. The equation for the nutrient concentration is nonlinear as well, with a term coupling both variables. For this system we design an existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence theory by setting up a careful analysis which
{"title":"Well-posedness for a class of phase-field systems modeling prostate cancer growth with fractional operators and general nonlinearities","authors":"P. Colli, G. Gilardi, J. Sprekels","doi":"10.4171/rlm/969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/rlm/969","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with a general system of equations and conditions arising from a mathematical model of prostate cancer growth with chemotherapy and antiangiogenic therapy that has been recently introduced and analyzed (see [P. Colli et al., Mathematical analysis and simulation study of a phase-field model of prostate cancer growth with chemotherapy and antiangiogenic therapy effects, Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 30 (2020), 1253–1295]). The related system includes two evolutionary operator equations involving fractional powers of selfadjoint, nonnegative, unbounded linear operators having compact resolvents. Both equations contain nonlinearities and in particular the equation describing the dynamics of the tumor phase variable has the structure of a Allen–Cahn equation with double-well potential and additional nonlinearity depending also on the other variable, which represents the nutrient concentration. The equation for the nutrient concentration is nonlinear as well, with a term coupling both variables. For this system we design an existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence theory by setting up a careful analysis which","PeriodicalId":54497,"journal":{"name":"Rendiconti Lincei-Matematica e Applicazioni","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45539658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We study the relaxation to equilibrium for a class linear onedimensional Fokker–Planck equations characterized by a particular subcritical confinement potential. An interesting feature of this class of Fokker–Planck equations is that, for any given probability density e(x), the diffusion coefficient can be built to have e(x) as steady state. This representation of the equilibrium density can be fruitfully used to obtain one-dimensional Wirtinger-type inequalities and to recover, for a sufficiently regular density e(x), a polynomial rate of convergence to equilibrium. Numerical results then confirm the theoretical analysis, and allow to conjecture that convergence to equilibrium with positive rate still holds for steady states characterized by a very slow polynomial decay at infinity.
{"title":"On a class of Fokker–Planck equations with subcritical confinement","authors":"G. Toscani, M. Zanella","doi":"10.4171/rlm/944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/rlm/944","url":null,"abstract":"We study the relaxation to equilibrium for a class linear onedimensional Fokker–Planck equations characterized by a particular subcritical confinement potential. An interesting feature of this class of Fokker–Planck equations is that, for any given probability density e(x), the diffusion coefficient can be built to have e(x) as steady state. This representation of the equilibrium density can be fruitfully used to obtain one-dimensional Wirtinger-type inequalities and to recover, for a sufficiently regular density e(x), a polynomial rate of convergence to equilibrium. Numerical results then confirm the theoretical analysis, and allow to conjecture that convergence to equilibrium with positive rate still holds for steady states characterized by a very slow polynomial decay at infinity.","PeriodicalId":54497,"journal":{"name":"Rendiconti Lincei-Matematica e Applicazioni","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46199486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper we continue the study of the derivation of different types of kinetic equations which arise from scaling limits of interacting particle systems. We began this study in [16]. More precisely, we consider the derivation of the kinetic equations for systems with long range interaction. Particular emphasis is put on the fact that all the kinetic regimes can be obtained approximating the dynamics of interacting particle systems, as well as the dynamics of Rayleigh Gases, by a stochastic Langevin-type dynamics for a single particle. We will present this approximation in detail and we will obtain precise formulas for the diffusion and friction coefficients appearing in the limit Fokker-Planck equation for the probability density of the tagged particle f (x, v, t), for three different classes of potentials. The case of interaction potentials behaving as Coulombian potentials at large distances will be considered in detail. In particular, we will discuss the onset of the the so-called Coulombian logarithm.
{"title":"Interacting particle systems with long-range interactions: Approximation by tagged particles in random fields","authors":"A. Nota, J. Vel'azquez, Raphael Winter","doi":"10.4171/rlm/977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/rlm/977","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we continue the study of the derivation of different types of kinetic equations which arise from scaling limits of interacting particle systems. We began this study in [16]. More precisely, we consider the derivation of the kinetic equations for systems with long range interaction. Particular emphasis is put on the fact that all the kinetic regimes can be obtained approximating the dynamics of interacting particle systems, as well as the dynamics of Rayleigh Gases, by a stochastic Langevin-type dynamics for a single particle. We will present this approximation in detail and we will obtain precise formulas for the diffusion and friction coefficients appearing in the limit Fokker-Planck equation for the probability density of the tagged particle f (x, v, t), for three different classes of potentials. The case of interaction potentials behaving as Coulombian potentials at large distances will be considered in detail. In particular, we will discuss the onset of the the so-called Coulombian logarithm.","PeriodicalId":54497,"journal":{"name":"Rendiconti Lincei-Matematica e Applicazioni","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46842375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Expansions in the Golden ratio base have been studied since a pioneering paper of Rényi more than sixty years ago. We introduce closely related expansions of a new type, based on the Fibonacci sequence, and we show that in some sense they behave better.
{"title":"Fibonacci expansions","authors":"C. Baiocchi, V. Komornik, P. Loreti","doi":"10.4171/rlm/940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/rlm/940","url":null,"abstract":"Expansions in the Golden ratio base have been studied since a pioneering paper of Rényi more than sixty years ago. We introduce closely related expansions of a new type, based on the Fibonacci sequence, and we show that in some sense they behave better.","PeriodicalId":54497,"journal":{"name":"Rendiconti Lincei-Matematica e Applicazioni","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45644902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling of a gas slug rising in a cylindrical duct and possible applications to volcanic scenarios","authors":"A. Farina, J. Matrone, C. Montagna, F. Rosso","doi":"10.4171/RLM/920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/RLM/920","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54497,"journal":{"name":"Rendiconti Lincei-Matematica e Applicazioni","volume":"120 1","pages":"917-937"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77292453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the limit as $s to 1^-$ of possibly non-separable fractional Orlicz–Sobolev spaces","authors":"A. Alberico, A. Cianchi, L. Pick, L. Slavíková","doi":"10.4171/RLM/918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/RLM/918","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54497,"journal":{"name":"Rendiconti Lincei-Matematica e Applicazioni","volume":"18 1","pages":"879-899"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78941927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An $varepsilon$-regularity result for optimal transport maps between continuous densities","authors":"M. Goldman","doi":"10.4171/RLM/922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/RLM/922","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54497,"journal":{"name":"Rendiconti Lincei-Matematica e Applicazioni","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46043548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We present and analyze two simple $N$-particle particle systems for the spread of an infection, respectively with binary and with multi-body interactions. We establish a convergence result, as $N to infty$, to a set of kinetic equations, providing a mathematical justification of related numerical schemes. We analyze rigorously the time asymptotics of these equations, and compare the models numerically.
{"title":"Kinetic SIR equations and particle limits","authors":"A. Ciallella, M. Pulvirenti, S. Simonella","doi":"10.4171/RLM/937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/RLM/937","url":null,"abstract":"We present and analyze two simple $N$-particle particle systems for the spread of an infection, respectively with binary and with multi-body interactions. We establish a convergence result, as $N to infty$, to a set of kinetic equations, providing a mathematical justification of related numerical schemes. We analyze rigorously the time asymptotics of these equations, and compare the models numerically.","PeriodicalId":54497,"journal":{"name":"Rendiconti Lincei-Matematica e Applicazioni","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42481183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pathology of essential spectra of elliptic problems in periodic family of beads threaded by a spoke thinning at infinity","authors":"S. Nazarov, J. Taskinen","doi":"10.4171/RLM/921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/RLM/921","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54497,"journal":{"name":"Rendiconti Lincei-Matematica e Applicazioni","volume":"26 1","pages":"939-969"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75524101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}