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We study the evolution of a system of n particles \({\{(x_i, v_i)\}_{i=1}^{n}}\) in \({\mathbb{R}^{2d}}\) . That system is a conservative system with a Hamiltonian of the form \({H[\mu]=W^{2}_{2}(\mu, \nu^{n})}\) , where W 2 is the Wasserstein distance and μ is a discrete measure concentrated on the set \({\{(x_i, v_i)\}_{i=1}^{n}}\) . Typically, μ(0) is a discrete measure approximating an initial L ∞ density and can be chosen randomly. When d = 1, our results prove convergence of the discrete system to a variant of the semigeostrophic equations. We obtain that the limiting densities are absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure. When \({\{\nu^n\}_{n=1}^\infty}\) converges to a measure concentrated on a special d–dimensional set, we obtain the Vlasov–Monge–Ampère (VMA) system. When, d = 1 the VMA system coincides with the standard Vlasov–Poisson system.
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Cullen, M., Gangbo, W. & Pisante, G. The Semigeostrophic Equations Discretized in Reference and Dual Variables. Arch Rational Mech Anal 185, 341–363 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00205-006-0040-6
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