Strict contractivity of the 2-Wasserstein distance for the porous medium equation by mass-centering

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 353-363

  Carrillo, J A ^a   Di Francesco, M ^b,c   Toscani, G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b JOHANN RADON INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Barenblatt solutions; Porous medium equation; Wasserstein distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148997379     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08594-7     Document Type: Article

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