{ "id": "1501.01092", "version": "v1", "published": "2015-01-06T07:20:03.000Z", "updated": "2015-01-06T07:20:03.000Z", "title": "Duality theory and optimal transport for sand piles growing in a silos", "authors": [ "Luigi De Pascale", "ChloƩ Jimenez" ], "categories": [ "math.AP" ], "abstract": "We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions for a system of PDEs which describes the growth of a sandpile in a silos with flat bottom under the action of a vertical, measure source. The tools we use are a discrete approximation of the source and the duality theory for optimal transport (or Monge-Kantorovich) problems.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2015-01-06T07:20:03.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "49Q20", "35K20", "35K55", "47J20", "49K30", "35B99" ], "keywords": [ "optimal transport", "sand piles growing", "duality theory", "measure source", "discrete approximation" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2015arXiv150101092D" } } }