Reversible coalescing-fragmentating Wasserstein dynamics on the real line

Abstract

We introduce a family of reversible fragmentating-coagulating processes of particles of varying size-scaled diffusivity with strictly local interaction on the real line as mathematically rigorous description of colloidal motion of fluids. The associated measure-valued process provides a weak solution to a corrected Dean–Kawasaki equation for supercooled liquids without dissipation. Our construction is based on the introduction and analysis of a fundamentally new family of equilibrium measures for the associated dynamics and their Dirichlet forms. We identify the intrinsic metric as the quadratic Wasserstein distance, which makes the process a non-trivial example of Wasserstein diffusion.

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