Chapter 1 Gradient Flows of Probability Measures

Handbook of Differential Equations: Evolutionary Equations

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-136

  Ambrosio, Luigi ^a   Savaré, Giuseppe ^b  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1016/S1874-5717(07)80004-1     Document Type: Chapter

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