Dynamics of kinematic aggregation equations
Presenter
August 22, 2013
Keywords:
- Monge mass transport
- Monge-Ampere equation
- non-linear PDE
- optimal transport
- Ricci curvature
MSC:
- 32W20
- 82C70
- 37-xx
- 37Fxx
- 37Gxx
- 34B10
Abstract
Aggregation equations are used to model nonlocal interactions in biology and related problems in which a population density moves with a velocity that depends nonlocally on the density through an aggregation interaction kernel. The mathematical behavior of these equations has direct connection to problems in optimal transport and incompressible fluid dynamics. I will review recent results for these problems and the role of geometry in the dynamics of both smooth and singular solutions.