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Monge–Ampère
gravitation as a $\Gamma$-limit of good rate functions
Luigi Ambrosio, Aymeric Baradat and Yann Brenier |
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Vol. 16 (2023), No. 9, 2005–2040
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Abstract |
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Monge–Ampère gravitation is a modification of the classical Newtonian gravitation where the linear Poisson equation is replaced by the nonlinear Monge–Ampère equation. This paper is concerned with the rigorous derivation of Monge–Ampère gravitation for a finite number of particles from the stochastic model of a Brownian point cloud, following the formal ideas of a recent work by Brenier (Bull. Inst. Math. Acad. Sin. 11:1(2016), 23–41). This is done in two steps. First, we compute the good rate function corresponding to a large deviation problem related to the Brownian point cloud at fixed positive diffusivity. Second, we study the -convergence of this good rate function, as the diffusivity tends to zero, toward a (nonsmooth) Lagrangian encoding the Monge–Ampère dynamic. Surprisingly, the singularities of the limiting Lagrangian correspond to dissipative phenomena. As an illustration, we show that they lead to sticky collisions in one space dimension. |
Keywords
Monge–Ampère gravitation, large deviations,
$\Gamma$-convergence, Lagrangian mechanics, interacting
particle systems
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Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 49J52, 60F10, 70F40, 70B05
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Milestones
Received: 8 September 2020
Revised: 17 January 2022
Accepted: 9 April 2022
Published: 11 November 2023
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Authors |
| Luigi Ambrosio | |
| Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa Italy |
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| Aymeric Baradat | |
| Université Lyon, CNRS, Université
Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UMR5208 Institut Camille Jordan Villeurbanne France |
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| Yann Brenier | |
| École Normale Supérieure Paris France |
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| © 2023 MSP (Mathematical Sciences Publishers). Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY). |
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