Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Flows and their Probabilistic Counterparts

Viorel Barbu is professor of Mathematics at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Romania) and also member of Romanian Academy and of European Academy of Science. He has published several monographs and textbooks on nonlinear analysis, infinite dimensional optimization, partial differential equations and Navier-Stokes equations with Springer, Academic Press, Kluwer, Birkhauser.Michael Röckner is professor of Mathematics at Bielefeld University (Germany) and a distinguished visiting professor at CAS. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, and a foreign honorary member of the Romanian Academy. His main areas of research are stochastic analysis, in particular, stochastic partial differential equations, the theory of Dirichlet forms and potential theory. He is a coauthor of several monographs in these fields.

“The authors present in their book a complete analysis of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations and of McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations. The proof of each main result (existence, uniqueness, and long-time behavior) is given with details. The reader will find in this book how classical tools can be applied in the important context of nonlinear equations.” (Alain Brillard, zbMATH 1548.35261, 2024)

• - Introduction.- Existence of nonlinear Fokker–Planck flows.- Time dependent Fokker–Planck equations.- Convergence to equilibrium of nonlinear Fokker–Planck flows.- Markov processes associated with nonlinear Fokker–Planck equations.- Appendix.