Seminar
Examples of gradient flows for differential forms
Yann Brenier (CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (France))
Wed, 20 Nov 2019
• 10:30-11:30h
• Templergraben 55, Room 114
Abstract
The heat equation can be interpreted as the gradient flow of the Boltzmann entropy with respect to the metric of optimal transportation for volume forms, as well known since the work of Otto. We make a similar attempt for other type of differential forms, which leads to vector-valued parabolic equations.