On damped second-order gradient systems

By M. Jendoubi, Pascal B'egout, Jérôme Bolte. 2014

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Using small deformations of the total energy, as introduced in [31], we establish that damped second order gradient systems $$ u^{\prime\prime}(t)+\gamma u^\prime(t)+\nabla G(u(t))=0, $$ may be viewed as quasi-gradient systems. In order to study the asymptotic behavior of these systems, we prove that any (nontrivial) desingularizing function appearing in KL inequality satisfies $\varphi(s)\ge c\sqrt s$ whenever the original function is definable and $C^2.$ Variants to this result are given. These facts are used in turn to prove that a desingularizing function of the potential $G$ also desingularizes the total energy and its deformed versions. Our approach brings forward several results interesting for their own sake: we provide an asymptotic alternative for quasi-gradient systems, either a trajectory converges, or its norm tends to infinity. The convergence rates are also analyzed by an original method based on a one-dimensional worst-case gradient system. We conclude by establishing the convergence of solutions of damped second order systems in various cases including the definable case. The real-analytic case is recovered and some results concerning convex functions are also derived.

Subfields: Applied Mathematics, Computational Theory and Mathematics

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Fast optimization via inertial dynamics with closed-loop damping (2020, methodology): “Let us first recall the main lines of the quasi-gradient approach to the inertial gradient systems as developed by Bégout–Bolte–Jendoubi in [41].”