Franca Hoffmann, Caltech
Title:聽Equilibria in energy landscapes with nonlinear diffusion and nonlocal interaction
Abstract:聽We study interacting particles behaving according to a reaction-diffusion equation with nonlinear diffusion and nonlocal attractive interaction. This class of partial differential equations has a very nice gradient flow structure that allows us to make links to homogeneous functionals and variations of well-known functional inequalities. Depending on the nonlinearity of the diffusion, the choice of interaction potential and the space dimensionality, we obtain different regimes. Our goal is to understand better the asymptotic behavior of solutions in each of these regimes, starting with the fair-competition regime where attractive and repulsive forces are in balance. This is joint work with Jos茅 A. Carrillo and Vincent Calvez.