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Nonlocal particle approximation for linear and fast diffusion equations
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We construct deterministic particle solutions for linear and fast diffusion equations using a nonlocal approximation. We exploit the $2$-Wasserstein gradient flow structure of the equations in order to obtain the nonlocal approximating PDEs by regularising the corresponding internal energy with suitably chosen mollifying kernels, either compactly or globally supported. Weak solutions are obtained by the JKO scheme. From the technical point of view, we improve known commutator estimates, fundamental in the nonlocal-to-local limit, to include globally supported kernels which, in particular cases, allow us to justify the limit without any further perturbation needed. Furthermore, we prove geodesic convexity of the nonlocal energies in order to prove convergence of the particle solutions to the nonlocal equations towards weak solutions of the local equations. We overcome the crucial difficulty of dealing with the singularity of the first variation of the free energies at the origin. As a byproduct, we provide convergence rates expressed as a scaling relationship between the number of particles and the localisation parameter. The analysis we perform leverages the fact that globally supported kernels yield a better convergence rate compared to compactly supported kernels. Our result is relevant in statistics, more precisely in sampling Gibbs and heavy-tailed distributions.
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