Reversible Coalescing-Fragmentating Wasserstein Dynamics on the Real Line

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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.