Entropic measure and wasserstein diffusion

Annals of Probability

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1114-1191

  von Renesse, Max K ^a   Sturm, Karl Theodor ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brownian motion on the homeomorphism group; Change of variable formula; Dirichlet process; Entropic measure; Entropy; Measure valued diffusion; Optimal transport; Stochastic heat flow; Wasserstein diffusion; Wasserstein space

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949570762     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOP430     Document Type: Article

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