A relation between Г-convergence of functionals and their associated gradient flows

Science China Mathematics - Tập 42 - Trang 133-139 - 1999
Huaiyu Jian1
1Department of Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Tóm tắt

Giorgi conjectured in 1979 that if a sequence of functionals converges in the sense of Г-convergence to a limiting functional, then the corresponding gradient flows will converge as well after changing timescale appropriately. It is shown that this conjecture holds true for a rather wide kind of functionals.

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