Large deviations and gradient flows
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Large deviations and gradient flows.
In recent work we uncovered intriguing connections between Otto's characterization of diffusion as an entropic gradient flow on the one hand and large-deviation principles describing the microscopic picture (Brownian motion) on the other. In this paper, we sketch this connection, show how it generalizes to a wider class of systems and comment on consequences and implications. Specifically, we c...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1364-503X,1471-2962
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0341